I’m saving that image for later. Thanks.
For the reason given in the meme. The professional political class is aristocrats, they are above the people, because the people put them there with free elections. As our superiors, they are entitled to more than we are, and they are also not required to follow the rules. In short, “rank has its privileges.”
This is what they believe. They say otherwise, but pretty much everythig they say is self-serving lie.