It’s always made no sense to me that corporations can’t lie to you in their advertisements or the government will go after them (unless you’re a pharmaceutical company) but politicians can lie to you all day long and the consequences are far more damaging.
I think you used the word “more” where you meant “less,” no?
Politicians have always sought to concentrate power to themselves.
And the power to deceive the population, well, that they crave over everything else as through it they can manipulate populations into heinous things for their own enrichment.