The Essence of Government

The current philosophy on government seems often to boil down to passing laws to get people to behave as they should; sadly, the government to a large extent cannot legislate behavior. It cannot legislate tolerance, it cannot legislate charity, it cannot legislate pride in small businesses and America, it cannot legislate virtue; it cannot condemn all crimes. Thus when it tries to do so it fails nobly, and thus when it fails nobly our beloved country, our beloved world, keeps going down the shitter.