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My pet theory is that it's all unintentionally a byproduct of the myth making involved in the country. Like it's all part of these unwritten rules designed to confuse and obfuscate processes but they have to base it on a bunch of hokey anecdotes and storytelling to make it seem more legitimate.
So invariably there's some unwritten rule about wagon wheels or some bullshit story of Senator Cornbutton's Acorn Shells involved that nobody should know or care about while trying to run a government. And all that theater conveniently employs a whole troupe of reporters and "experts" who can explain why, because of the gauge of 19th century boot laces, we can't have universal healthcare
Reminds me of the Catholic Church keeping their monopoly on salvation by forbidding the Bible to be translated.