Good point. A lot of politicians are in fact in favor of (or at least indifferent towards) increased state surveillance for the sake of asserting the state’s power over the working public.

Politicians want a strong law enforcement that protects the status quo of an upper class who has impunity regarding the law to the point where they can host a sex trafficking ring on a private island.

Working people used to have vandalism and sabotage as a tactic when the state and capital wrought the working public this way, but with the modern surveillance state this tactic has been completely neutralized. This is the world that politicians want.