I mean, ultimately government == a handful of legislators plus the executive and judicial branches. If you're suggesting we could avoid this by having the right people in office, you are right. But the founders of our government also clearly stated that if men were angels, they wouldn't even need to be governed, and if the government were run by angels, it wouldn't need to be limited, nor would it need checks and balances. We've forgotten this lesson over and over as our government continues to grow and remove checks against its power.