Rigby5
Diamond Member
First error: people don't actually control the government. Your second statement proved it. Government is evil and wasteful regardless of whether anyone takes it over. Government suffers no penalty when it's evil and wastfull, so why would anyone conclude it's ever not evil and wasteful?
If there is a democratic republic, then voters are supposed to control government, and then it only becomes corrupt if voters can be misinformed by propaganda.
Government are not the source of corruption in a democratic republic, only the means of carrying out corruption if the voters let the corrupt take over.
And the source of pure corruption are the wealthy elite.
If there is a democratic republic and the voters have not been deceived by propaganda, then government does suffer penalties for waste, corruption, or violations of rights.
Nor could government corruption ever be as bad as corporate corruption, which is the pure source of all corruption.