In his legendary Gettysburg address, US president Abraham Lincoln referred to the American government as being “of the people, by the people, for the people.” In other words, ordinary people were the raison d’être for governance and government.
Over the years, of course, that conception of governance and government has become corrupted by big business and special interest groups. Today, the US government is a mammoth bureaucracy that is incapable of solving even life-and-death issues of citizens.
