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Rayne
A democratic government should always be of the people, by the people and for the people. However a government exists, as the name implies, solely to "govern" people and their actions. Ultimately, a society is shaped by the people themselves; the government only has a recognized means to take and sanction actions for the benefit of the people.
At the smallest scale, consider a single person, the government should not have the responsibility of baby sitting them through life; on a bigger scale, the same truth applies to large populations of people. Consider a society whose people do not recognize the needs and flaws - or make any attempt to fix them - of themselves and the people around them, the government of such a society would be as useless as the people themselves.
After the devastation of the first world war, Germany found itself in a pitiful state. The people were dejected and their honour besmirched as a consequence of the war, and the interim government established by the victors was utterly helpless amid the depression that swept the nation. It took the likes of Adolf Hitler, who projected such tremendous faith, pride and hope onto the German people and their country recovered so astonishingly well that they were able to start another world war by invading two countries and putting up a great fight with several others on three different fronts. Regardless of the horrors of the second world war and the third reich, one single fact is indisputable: Germany would never have risen so quickly to power during the war without the full support and dedication of it's people, which Hitler harnessed for his own ends.
Furthermore, if a government fails to adequately address the demands of its society, it is up to the people to stand up for themselves and retaliate against such injustice. During the 1990s, the Bolivian government relinquished the control of its country's water supply to a multinational corporation which hiked prices drastically. This resulted in massive protests across the country and became part of what was to be known as "Bolivia's water war". Eventually the officials of the MNC fled the country and the government took back control of the water, setting the price to a more affordable range.
A government cannot exist without its people, but people can, and must, be able to survive without a government. Since the dawn of civilization, the human race has been astonishingly self-sufficient, which has granted us rule over this planet. Our ability to take care of ourselves, especially under adverse circumstances, should be instinctive, whether there is a governing body to watch over us or not.
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