It's true that the people are responsible for the state of the government, after all if they didn't like it they could just revolt and install a new and better

It's true that the people are responsible for the state of the government, after all if they didn't like it they could just revolt and install a new and better system... In reality when you have a country of 300M, a single voice is so tiny as to be not worth speaking up. If you are in a town hall meeting it's completely different. Which is why democracy doesn't work when you get too big. The top governmental level is too removed from the individuals as to be entirely oblivious to it. Citizens feel powerless and the corporations bypass the elective system by going straight for whoever is in power right now. The special interest power in concentrated and the benefit to them from legislation are obvious while the power of the people is disperse and the disbenefits dilute so nobody 'feels' the pain of a tariff or a corporate tax. Governments should be kept small and local.