For the love of Betsy

Government seems to be the easiest target of “bad press” meaning no one pays attention to it because it is inherently a place for corrupt individuals (which we do vote into office…) as well as red tape from the bureaucracy it has become only makes it slower than a parade of slugs.
I argue government is the only place openly honest that people are people. Flawed when put under the microscope, but still possible of good deeds. That possibility isn’t paid as much mind however, since it does not go with the “public” mindset. Why do people feel so out of touch with their government – is bias like this taught at such a young age as to make it seem impossible to try and work with the system? Does no one want to grow up to be president anymore?
I think the bad press such offices receive can only lead to a vicious cycle of distrust and disillusionment that leads to nothing happening. The few who believe in our constitution still try and be activists, but it’s to a deaf crowd they preach. Who wants to listen to that kind of news – it’s myth, and we’re realists.
Yet our government still exists – why? It’s become independent from the people it’s supposed to represent, or at least in our ideology of civil rights from African Americans, Women, Immigrants, everybody who lives under our flag. Do they care? Why should they care?
Do they want to feel safe, or do they mind being abused by this willful segregation? It’s a splitting of the real possibility for a Democratic Republic, for which we supposedly stand. One nation, indivisible? Truth and justice for all…