These are all reasons why governments fail to do anything useful. But we have numerous modern examples of dysfunctional kleptocracies persisting for generations

These are all reasons why governments fail to do anything useful. But we have numerous modern examples of dysfunctional kleptocracies persisting for generations. Governments fail, as in, stop functioning entirely, for only one reason: they go broke. If the money keeps flowing, they don’t care about any of this stuff. Sure, go ahead and vote. If that had worked in those countries, they wouldn’t have become dysfunctional kleptocracies in the first place. Just watch; they’ll all go broke before even considering reform, and then only in exchange for more money.