If they cannot live up to their purpose, ignore them completely like trash on the sidewalk (actually sometimes I put the trash in the bin) but the government is non-existent.
They are not a thing unless they are given voice by me....realise this. Only participate when it benefits you directly. All other actions are to be actively ignored, and they are to be given no thought.
They have nothing except what is given to them..they are useless unless they can help you. If they cannot. Ignore them completely.
Do not respond to them. The burden is on them, and they will do nothing because they can do nothong without real people.
It's really an education to see the birth of new governments and what that looks like.
I looked at the history of municipal govs in my area a few years back, and it's not what people think.
Everyone thinks we pay taxes for roads, power, etc. but that's not how it starts; in the beginning, the prominent members of the town decide they need something and they pay for it. The government is just a tool to establish right-of-ways and coordinate the project between multiple backers. Factory owners want power to their buildings so they pay to install the lines. Farmers want roads to get into market, so they build them. The public gets to opt in, it's not built on their behalf. The taxes only come in later for maintenance.
But look at projects today: governments build new infrastructure all the time. Who asked them? It's not their job to decide these things, they just take it on themselves, and tax us for the privilege.
Ultimately that is the real secret to all large groups. Its the collective collaboration and pooling of resources with an establishment that represents the code.
Corporations, clubs, guilds, governments, families, churches, etc.
It's all the same. It's just the taxes, and heirarchy that vary. Power structures between the groups, and inability to detach fully from them all, so they are intrinsically connected for good and bad.
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Small collectives where individual members are still prominent in the direction (clubs for example) are usually healthy, but anything beyond starts to come with serious drawbacks - outsizing of power to smaller and smaller proportions of the group and slowly losing all individual rights.
This same reason and mechanism is at the heart of all secret societies because they too desire to escape from the whole and to pilot the smaller group, but they Establish secret membership and enact powerful heirarchy to remain in control