They make laws that claim to be for everybody but are only for people who aren’t rich or powerful. The rich and powerful can commit bribery, human trafficking, murder, and more without consequence but yet jail people for doing the same thing. It’s like parents who swear all the time but punish their children for swearing.
Admittedly you have a point since parents are individuals in most of the US where I am from.
That hasn’t been true historically, nor does it need to continue just because we have done it that way for a few generations. Historically, parents are an entire community of adults raising the children as a group, which does map onto what a government is supposed to be fairly accurately.