It's like people forget how govt. evolved, just completely ignore feudalism, monarchism, tribalism etc. The reason we have democratic govt. is as a reaction to

It's like people forget how govt. evolved, just completely ignore feudalism, monarchism, tribalism etc. The reason we have democratic govt. is as a reaction to systems like that - creating an entity more powerful than all single groups but accountable to all (in theory). Of course, it turns out power always finds a way to concentrate, but that's just life, and why it's so important to have a strong and critical civil society as a bulwark against the concentration of power.