People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.