but people and government are not the same.

This is something that is absolutely true and we all need to understand it. Gone are days when we could shout theoretical definitions and expect the people to nod their heads. We have all read this definition by good Abe in the school:

'Democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

There was a time that this could have been true. Today the democracies have been hijacked by powerful entities in shadows that have not only monopolized the markets but the truthful fact is that they have monopolized the governments. We all notice this fact during the elections.

We cannot even find an ideal candidate to vote for anymore. Those of us who still vote only do so by the criteria of selecting the candidate on the the basis of him/her being the the least evil of all the available choices. This means we are not able to vote for the best but for the least worst. This is all happening after the fact that there still are many good people out there but they are eliminated in the preliminaries. This is a clear indication of how this system has been twisted and hijacked.