I don’t differ from you on that, but it does well to remember who elects them: we do.The reluctance is manufactured by our elected representatives.
Enough of us have concluded that central planning is a bad thing, and the free hand of the market a good thing, to cause the country to largely elect people who follow that line of thinking.
I don’t like that, I think we’ve collectively made bad decisions time and again, and my best hope is that the error of our ways will eventually dawn on us, but that feels a bit like the triumph of hope over experience most of the time.