[trcollinson]

We don't. But the reason why isn't because politicians don't like to follow rules, it's because they are following the rules that their constituents provide. Even if you disagree that they are following what is best for their constituents, they are following what their constituents want.

The simplistic view is that politicians will be voted out if they don't have enough followers. Right now in the US anyway, (and maybe other places, I hardly have time to keep up with US politics, let alone politics for other countries), the electorate wants entertainment. So they are receiving it. They want sound bites and bumper stickers. They want short speeches with easy to remember catch phrases. They want social media fights and they want news that entertains.

And thus, politicians are giving them what they want because that's their job.

I am the electorate. I helped build the system that we have now. The only way to change it is to get more and more people to want to be informed in different ways. As long as people want what they are getting right now, it will continue down this path. Will it change? Of course. When will it change? I have no idea.