> most governments including western "democratic" ones view their people as the biggest threat to that objective Which is particularly farcical when you realiz

> most governments including western "democratic" ones view their people as the biggest threat to that objective Which is particularly farcical when you realize that in the 20th century, governments murdered tens of millions of people. Governments are concentrations of power that wield monopolies on violence. If governments can be kept under control, kept within some reasonable guardrails, then they're very useful for various reasons. I am not an anarchist, even remotely. But when governments get out of control the result is often millions dead. Governments which view those guardrails as a threat from the people are a threat to the people. Such perceptions prove the necessity of those guardrails.