Governments are not rational, they are brutes. They take what they want when they want anyhow they want. Any pretense to civility and consultation is just that: pretense.
Those in power, the defacto governments, rig elections and get away with it; they borrow billions of dollars yet you will never get to know how the loans were used. They will use the police to unleash terror on citizens exercising their democratic rights, get a few skulls caved in and we can’t do anything about it because even the courts where one would ordinarily seek redress cower before government.