I think it's more the case of how much our political system, or more like our country, has pretty much turned into a super-massive high school. Those in politics are interested in serving the country to progress their own means. If it means locking down the A/V kids because they can easily slander them with a birthday party gone wrong video or something of the sort, or have connections with "Anonymous", and organize a homebrewed terrorism plot against somebody clearly in the wrong (as revenge as well for countless acts of bullying and abuse of power); they'll stop at nothing to make sure they get not only their A/V labs and such shut down, but also turned into the biggest outcasts in the school system, that not even the other nerds want to be associated with them; either out of fear of the school political clubs outcasting them as well (mostly made of "the populars" or those funded by friends who are related to the local donut shop owner or something, and pays voters off with that convenience), or because they feel shame for that group as badly as everyone else, despite being (near-constant) targets of bullying themselves.
You'd think the foreign and drama clubs are let off easily by them? Hah. They're just as bad off for the evulz, so to put it.
So far, the high school analogy of how our country is running is probably the most accurate representation of what's going on.