Government (or more accurately, any abstracted form of civic duty) is the only institution truly capable of countering:
1 The bacterial impulses of humanity to grow, consume, and destroy unchecked.
2. The destructive aspects of capitalism, namely the positive feedback loop of wealth accumulation among capitalism's winners (capitalists), and monopolies.
USA's government isn't doing either of those two things very well right now, not because government itself as an institutions is bad, but because it's being run by the very groups it was designed to counter (capitalists, corporations).
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