By design.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand
I’d point outside this world to the instigator of this sort of folly, i.e. Satan.
Yes, Rand was officially atheist and so what. Many ethical atheists are actually not so allergic to God as they are to pitiful, hypocritical religious practices. Maybe she and God made up in the end, I don’t know, I hope it happened.