This comment adds a lot to take in but thank you for taking the time to include it @baah.

Curiosity compels me to ask. Might you be able to link the source? :c)

As unlikely as it may seem - the above text, while expanding my awareness of the workings of the political/legal mechanisms concerned, represent a 'living-down-to-my-expectations' - since I have already suspected similar to be so.

The question that arises is "What is to be done about it?".

To expand this further - "In the face of a malign faction with absolute advantage in terms of control of the means of leverage are concerned - what 'can' be done?"

Thank you again for the informative comment!