I am completely for free association and largely agree with you. You misunderstand my analogies - I didn't literally mean government - it was just a way to explain myself.
All I'm saying is there needs to be limits to avoid abuse. I know of certain users here who have accumulated a million steem power through junk posts. It's completely unfair that their opinion weighs so heavily against yours which is actually a well considered response. Over the long term, this will discourage and frustrate millions of steemers.
Of course, there are good creators and curators getting influential too - I have no problem with that at all.