Because with educatio comes a sense of ethics and responsibility. Anyone with ethics will never get accepted into any political party.

“Smart people” are generally not rich people. They are coerced into labor like anyone else. Sometimes their labor is even useful.

They generally don’t have the time or reason to participate in a counter-productive popularity contest.

Because to be successful in politics it’s much more important to be charismatic and well spoken than to be actually smart. It’s a dsad state of affairs.