Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
I hold strongly to the belief that populaces cannot fail governments, that it is only governments that can fail the populace.
How do you explain the facts that:

1. The US voting populace continually elects venal and easily corrupted persons to Congress, a Congress that consistently fails the populace in an effort to buy votes to keep itself in power and thus provides us poor governance partly in an effort to provide, as you suggest to an extent, surety of everything to everyone. That's a patent impossibility. That is a significant failure of the people to the government under which they live.

2. Your premise that States must "create mechanisms to extend good governance to the entire populace equitably, and with a surity of redress when it inevitably drifts, so that that those same populaces can apply course corrections short of once again taking up arms."would allow a determined minority to effectively mug a government into giving them special treatment which will invariably create other minorities not receiving such treatment and thus create a cycle of unrest which would likely eventually result in the taking up of arms.

I, as always, admire your idealism but poor governance is not the root of all insurgencies. Most? Yes but not all.

It is not possible to treat an entire populace equitably because all are not equal in effort they'll expend or in ability and more importantly, in desires and/or needs. They never will be. Even immutable geography can intrude, as can the weather. Nor is it possible to provide surety of redress for the same reasons...

People are the problem. It's really a shame all will not play by your rules.