I rather like viewing politics from a perspective.
From the Greek. Poly = many, Tick = Blood sucking vermin.
Therefore , Politics is many blood sucking vermin, some times known as congress.
But I digress
A long, long time ago,(about 12k years) FOR a long long time.(about 250K years) mankind was a hunter gather. To survive we evolved. (descent with modification, to suit our environment. Our brains were wired in a certain manner.

One indication of how the brain was wired is the monkeysphere
Furthermore...the Collective IQ of any group is inversely proportional to it's size.

SO. Governments are insane.....and stupid.

I submit the entirety of human history since the Ice Age as evidence to support my claim.