Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Government is dysfunctional.
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
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