> The other side believes government cannot be improved because government itself is per se bad. I agree - it's clear that the social democrats and other lefti

> The other side believes government cannot be improved because government itself is per se bad. I agree - it's clear that the social democrats and other leftists would clearly like to remove government entirely and achieve a stateless society. Or did you mean the right-wing libertarian types who want to have no government so they can own nukes? These analogies are just silly and not really the point - the goals don't really matter to the point. The point is that when there is less perceived legitimacy of government, people are more willing to look for other options.