The politicians are all actors from Central Casting or an affiliate theater school. Each one has a Loyolan or Templar handler, or is an initiate themselves. Both Democrackers and Republicretins belong to the same secret societies and theater schools, which all answer to Rome for centuries running.

They create new political parites, conflicts, wars, movements, and rebellions, to keep the common people under constant confusion, conflict, and control. They send their actors out to lead the movements, and keep the million Don Quixote rubes swinging at windmills.

TL;DR : The government is a criminal racket enterprise guarded by a stage play and political-religious mind control. It has been this way for many centuries, and the mind slaves refuse to see it because of deep emotional investment in the million false narratives along the way.