The problem with any organisation like Unions, Civil Rights Organisations, Non-Profit Issue Oriented Organisations, etc....
Is simply this: Once they acheive their main “chartered goals”, they cannot and WILL NOT accept victory and do the honorable thing and scale back their operations. Instead they continue to grasp at straws to justify the existance of their power structure even if it goes against the long term interests of the people they supposedly represent.
Once a power structure is created to solve a problem, that very same power structure will attempt to preserve itself even after the founding goal in accomplished.
We see this in government programs all the time, the old adage about power corrupting is the keystone to understanding this behavior.
Exactly correct.
The primary mission of a bureaucracy is to sustain itself and grow.