The politicians created this 4th branch of government, the bureaucracy and now they can’t control it and it turns on them when necessary. They are accountable to no one because of the government unions and they know it. If a politician gets uppity and demands accountability leaks and problems suddenly crop up for said politician until they pipe down and let the bureaucrats have their way.
Until the government unions are broken and the bureaucracy reined in the slide into the hell that is communism is inevitable.
Yes the first thing they teach you in govt 105 is that the bureaucracy is a self feeding mechanism. It grows organically. It has now become to large to govern and is naturally corrupt to the core. There is only one cure. It has to be pruned back to bare root or close to it. Politicians have no will for that kind of activity. It will likely take CWII or the grid going down.