Don't feel bad, Chesus. I gave up on trying to explain how Government works to him. Apparently there are secret mystical Obama powers no one can stop.
Government works = oxymoron. Government doesn't "work" literally or figuratively. Government functions in routine perverse patterns, but it doesn't "work".
You work in order to feed government. Government tells you what to do to avoid being hurt by them. That's the deal you have with them, because they say so.
Obama does have his secret courts, where he is judge and executioner, but I don't think of that as mystical, just totalitarian.