You find this everywhere there is a centralized "authority". Incumbants use every trick to keep their tribe in power at the expense of what that central power w

You find this everywhere there is a centralized "authority". Incumbants use every trick to keep their tribe in power at the expense of what that central power was nominally "supposed to do". The purpose of the system is what it does. The purpose of seemingly all regulatory institutions is to gain and maintain power for the tribe in power.