Your inability to understand the purpose of what the government is becoming and what it was intended to be with the declaration of independence is due to your zealotry of government worship. You act as if the government is not abusing their power, from police to president, but the many police and even presidential candidates, are abusing power they don't even have. Police are acting like judge, jury and executioner. Hillary and Trump want to parade around like they are already rulers of a nation, just not a free nation. Your problem is that you accept the rules of the intentions of a democratic society (even though it's supposed to be a uncoercive, constitutional republic), you are accepting majority rule. You think that if 51% say something should be changed or put into effect, than it should be so. You fail to see that less than 30% of the legal population votes on a regular basis, and we get to vote on less than 10% of the actual laws that are placed over us. The reason why constitutional republics are not good, even they sound great on paper, is because they can easily turn very quickly into a corporatist oligarchy through an incompetent populace being swindled by con artist politicians wording laws a certain way, such that they may be vague enough to work in any level of corruption until the people realize what's going on, but by then it may be too late. This country isn't even a democratic society anymore. The United States of America has been a corporatist oligarchy since 1913 (but even before that when Alexander Hamilton was the first treasurer under Washington, he set up a central banking system with corporate subsidy distribution). Larken is trying to put that into plain english for you and anyone else who doesn't understand that, but religious zealotry is one that even the wisest of scholarly debates could not alter. You've been brainwashed, and it is truly unfortunate. When you feel the urge to say we should leave this "free" country because we don't like how "free" it is anymore, maybe you should read the declaration of independence very clearly and understand why this country was created, as well as compare the issues of what King George III did to anger the founders to move to secede. Knowledge is power, but blind devotion to corrupt political practice, such that you are showing to have, shows no individual comprehension at all.