Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.
But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described. . . Those of us in the Congress of the United States are window dressing.