Welcome to modern civilization, where government has become the "bad guys" that don't really do what we tell them to do. Yeah...they give us nice things sometimes, but why exactly do we vote them in each year? I recall the faint memory of tax breaks, political issues, moral issues, and a little hogwash mixed in there somewhere. So I kid about the government, but search your feelings! You may find that there's a lot of truth lingering about.
Where are we at with government these days? Lincoln said that a government should be "of the people, by the people, for the people," but what does that even mean? I certainly haven't heard of Brutus around town these days, practicing his tyrannicidal tendencies for the "good of the country." Do we have a pompous Caesar on the throne, or has our King decided to fly solo and rule by his own authority? Perhaps neither of these relate to our current predicament, and we have progressed to a superior form of....something. Or nothing.
In all seriousness, if government is to be "of the people, by the people, for the people," then one would assume that the PEOPLE are a pretty big deal for the system. It was the people who chose Saul as a physical king instead of God, and this process has continued for millennia. The people have been picking and choosing rulers for quite some time now, and I think it's time they started making educated decisions based on the good of the system as a whole. Government is FOR the people, and if there are no people, then there can be no government.
P.S. I commented on Susan Berner's "Long Live the King"
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