everyone, dems, republicans, military, NGOs, etc, are all just trying to do what they would like to be doing right now, occupying their role and pretending to be in a normal, functioning system. e.g. the new dems want to be Numbers Fuckstein in a normal government, so that's what they're doing.
People are in these positions not because they want to wield power effectively. They are in them because they looked at them, were like "oh it looks kind of fun to be perceived in that particular way," got there, and are just kind of pretending that their pantomiming makes any sense right now