“Who can be a failure in so many ways, instead of getting fired we’ll give ourselves a raise… the government can!”
Causality is a tricky thing. Understanding why an event happens after the fact can be difficult and even impossible, given the complexity of reality, and given that any small contingency can have a massive effect upon the whole (the Butterfly Effect). This is why government solutions mostly fail: because problems are addressed without being understood. The government’s proper role is not to solve everyone’s problems, it’s to execute the general interest (e.g. military defense). When it extends itself beyond its proper bounds it balloons and then collapses, the way a star might burn brightest just as its fuel runs out and it burns out for good.
No revolution will be necessary to bring down this government. What’s scary is the question of who will be in a position to step into its shoes once the collapse happens.
