That's always been the one failing of a government by any kind of popular agreement or consensus. Some of the humdrum necessities of civilization also happen to be very irksome: like taxes. Not to mention subject to considerable squabbling. It's only something existential in nature like a crisis that puts people together. End the crisis, and it's back to the squabbling. Humans appear to be more a tribal kind of animal under normal circumstances. Bigger than that, and we start seeing competition.
An autocrat would have the capability to, as they say, cut the crap, but of course that has the risk of being subject to that person's whims. It's really a difficult thing to work out either way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
