[RichInOC]

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

—Robert A. Heinlein, “Logic of Empire”

...On the other hand, per Grey’s Law, any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[Yosemitest]

I agree.
But let's not forget

wisdom from the greatest Book on Earth.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities,
against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.