>Many of them are corrupt and will do evil-- just imagine the worse member of the political party you disagree with as a dictator. I personally see very little

>Many of them are corrupt and will do evil-- just imagine the worse member of the political party you disagree with as a dictator. I personally see very little utility in this thought experiment because this isn't reality. There is a reason why we have a government in the first place, and we risk loss to liberty and freedom by making the government too weak. It's a balancing act, and imagining the worst case should not be an argument for what reality requires. For example, imagine the government was full of rational dictators who had my best interests in mind. Should I give them absolute power? That too is unrealistic, so why make arguments based on it.