Government has all sorts of feedback loops that affect how the individual decision makers make their individually unimportant decisions and once things start mo

Government has all sorts of feedback loops that affect how the individual decision makers make their individually unimportant decisions and once things start moving in the "we're really gonna screw this person" direction it's very hard and incredibly rare for it to change course even if no individual involved likes the course they're on. The incentives are simply not favorable to reversing course.