They just don't care.
Really.
It's that simple.
It doesn't matter if they answer questions or not.
It doesn't matter if they are successful or not.
They truly do not give a flying fuck about anything but their own corrupt, misguided, evil lives.
If elections don't cure this, it's truly the end of this form of democracy…unrecoverable, and the only solution is to toss off this old government and form a new one.