Why? Because Nanny Staters GAVE them that power. It's all well and good when that power is being used the way YOU want it to be used, but hell on wheels when the "other side" is in power.
Reap what you've sown.
No DC. There have been illegal power grabs and Washington is fine with it. The people are awake now and are not. No one gave them anything. Commies and Marxists infiltrated the government, academia and the MSM. McCarthy was right. And he was silenced. People believed the crap the MSM fed them.....until now. The reaction is called the Tea Party. Hopefully it isn't too late.