If you were one of them she would have intelligence reports on you that would be used to keep you in line. In the 90s, for example, the Clinton White House obtained 900+ FBI files on prominent politicians. Anyone close enough to be competition is by definition compromised. They only promote those who can be controlled. In the US there is no real left/right competition. If you become important to their cause or are an obstacle you are either leveraged somehow or destroyed.