needs intelligent government
The government holds the monopoly of force, not the citizen. Which means it's the government that is allowed to kill, not the citizen. The citizen can hold a weapon for self-defense, but the citizen is not allowed to come up with an idea why to kill somebody. It's the base of our society and something ( many ) Americans haven't understood quite yet.
I'm not sure where this disrespect of the restrain of using force comes from. Any country is divided by wars between its communities, by conflicts of interests which heat up the minds. The question is how the fights are fought out. I suspect the strong presidents of the USA have come up with ideas why to kill or silence an opponent too many times in an emotional act, in despair to be re-elected. An act not prevented in the States with a directorial governmental approach - as in Switzerland where it takes the majority of the seven to impose oneself irrationally.
The unredeemed injustices inflicted by one-eyed presidential rule, create a general impossibility to forgive the presidency. A detachment which in social isolation can lead for a loyal citizen to enter the war as well that is being fought on television and take up arms to kill.
An intelligent government never sees sense to kill or silence its people. No lawyer has the argumentation line able to give such sense. The exception is of course a citizen trying exactly to undermine the monopoly of force to accede decision making power on state assets through revolutionary means instead of following the legitimate democratic approach.
A rule you can apply for as long as it is the exception, which under one-eyed rule isn't guaranteed as it can rapidly make sense the opponent or opponents are trying to remove a president or regime from power by illegitimate means...
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I say the directorial approach rather - rather, not absolute, - leads to intelligent laws, regulations and of course intelligent implementation, causing the people to rather follow the laws and authorities, and not to indulge in killing in violent individual acts. Because - as an effect - of intelligent laws and regulations the people can as well survive without needing to kill somebody in a community's turf war, leading over the years to an increased trust in the government's monopoly of force.
An intelligent government doesn't have to shoot on its own people because intelligent government is acting in the people's interest with the result that the citizens rather collaborate and engage in the long way of finding political solutions to conflicts of interests with the government or other communities, including access to governmental decision making power.
Intelligent government is inclusive of all spheres of society and knows how to adapt to the ever changing realities of its citizens. It doesn't try artificially to maintain a status quo in order for the establishment to profit a term more and detach itself from the "plebs" when the elite should constantly search the dialogue and work on a national social cohesion that guarantees peace everyday in the streets; that there is not even a need to pick up arms for neither a superficial nor an existential need : all available by legitimate means, through merit respectively the fact to be a consciously cooperating human.
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Something you can guarantee for as long as the political arena doesn't turn into a hopeless king's court. Into 'bla-bla' depleting and undermining the monopoly of force over time not only through the lost freedom of the middle-class in the sorrow of the murders in the streets but as well higher taxes and futile bureaucracy making < everything > only worse. And void of that politically heterogeneous social group of those proud in the middle, who know that have only exceptionally political penetrating power, but who know as well that are the only ones educated and wealthy enough to allow some tolerance all while not being too rich or educated to be scared by it ; void of that group it gets difficult to maintain that ( american ) liberal meritocratic society, loyal and proud of their intelligent ( strong ) government, moving the country forward united, despite all walls to overcome : a country at peace as its people deserves it ; a diverse nation far from being a two-class society at risk of violent revolutions, as much excitement they might ever promise.
