>>17847911The reason it doesn't happen is that the awful truth is actually pretty boring (and is stuff everybody already sort of knows anyways) as laid out by Machiavelli in the 16th century: politicians are mainly playing a game and act in the interest of their own power and security and not for the common good. They pretend to be virtuous but the main reason they have power is adroit manipulation, opportunism, calculated appearance and effective use of coercive force (at the highest levels, i.e. matters of state). The people who are rewarded are the ones who are effective at this.
Most real conspiracies BTW are dangerous and hard to pull off. Most people overestimate how many succeed. Most conspiracy theories are usually wrong because politics is much more chaotic in reality, and the conspiracy theories themselves can often be concocted for "Machiavellian" purposes to control people, justify a war, to discredit someone you don't like or destabilize their regime, and in general serve the interests of someone else, who doesn't actually believe in the conspiracy theory. (Truth nuke: There is no Epstein client list, he killed himself and it was a useful lie made up by Trump's people and his influencers to bamboozle people into helping them get back into power.)
