If an armed robber confronts you in the street and gestures for you to enter a nearby darkened alleyway... it would be insanity to think you can use the change to your advantage.
Everything a thief does is to better protect THEM. Same with this commission.
Politics is broken, corrupt, and illegitimate. The best play is to not cooperate... at... all.
Politics, the way people here think about it, is over.