You're entirely accurate, of course. However, for whatever reason, you apparently refuse to acknowledge that the self-important ''moron in a cubicle'' is not in any way interested in ''preservation'' or anything else other than the retention and extension of its (not 'his', not 'her') own meagre power over your and other citizens' lives.
I refuse to acknowledge? Hell... I'm the one beating the drum that nobody hears!!!
It's these self-important numbskulls in local gubm't that are the biggest threat! Yeesh...