We are not its kids. It's an inappropriate anology.

Good thought. I started thinking this way when it came to the Post Office. @USPS isn’t a business. It’s a service. It’s right in the name.

It is good to dream. One day human conscience will have evolved beyond greed and egotism and then we can make this dream come true. Till them, government is the evenly step parent that makes ill decisions for its children that it completely lives off of, which happens to be …

Um… I don’t collect taxes from my family. I don’t imprison my family. My relations with my family is not established by law and enforced with lethal weapons. Things must be different in @marwilliamson’s family.

It is run like a family. A highly dysfunctional one and the ppl that continue to support them is just as much so. “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J Krishnamurti

Children are constantly changing. They're evolving to meet a future that meets their intellectual and spiritual requirements. Many adults have lost both of those internal faculties in favor of external pleasure. So step 1 for "government" would be to be modular & open to change

Then stop supporting corporate democrats then

Government IS run like a family. A mob crime family.

It's run like a crime family

I earned my way in my family. When kids earn things they respect them and know the value of working. Helps them feel like they earned it and that feels great. When given things for free no one repeats and they feel entitled. Those kids were called spoiled brats