A complete answer to this question is really nothing less than a comprehensive study of the entire field of political science. The reality is that you have two

A complete answer to this question is really nothing less than a comprehensive study of the entire field of political science. The reality is that you have two choices: you either defer your right of governance to someone else and just stop caring, or you will never be free of this. No victory is eternal. There is no such thing as victory. In a sense, this is actually why it keeps coming up. The reality of governance is such an immense expanse of tedium that a great many people buckle under it and try to imagine themselves as heroes or rebels or old wise men. They go looking for enemies where there are none and make them up to fight, making meaning where none was needed before. In any case, the answer to your question is, "Until you're dead, and someone else will have to keep it up after that."