It is glaring today that modern governments has completely lost its legitimacy to govern, they therefore tend to use violence and coercion to hold onto power. Violence are now directly or indirectly instigated by governments for one selfish interest or another.
Gone are the days when governments are entrusted with the responsibility of securing lives and properties of its citizens. Most citizens especially the elites today are engaging the services of private security companies to provide their needed security at extra cost due to the fact the government is no longer trusted.
A closer look at the supporters of governments today reveals that the so called supports are not given by citizens based on patriotism but rather on sentiments. Some of these supporters are simply supporting government just to be able to put food on their tables and if they are given opportunity of livelihood outside the government, they will not support such governments. While a handful of other supporters are very naïve about governance and how it ought to be hence they blindly follow what they couldn’t have supported if education.
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The level of masses reliability on the government is so alarming, all hands should be on deck to be self independent and financially stable
Government have depended on coercion and violence since the beginning of time. I think what has changed is to the degree it is being used against the people. However, throughout time populations have been wiped out in the name of king and country. So does this provide the 'legitimacy' to govern or does it come from the people's willingness to turn a blind eye to this violence and participate with the state no matter how violent it becomes?
The legitimacy governments had before actually had coercive tendency but was ignored because the masses seemed to have no say over it unlike now that education has sharpened and opened a new level of understanding to the society that many can boldly voice out now than before. I thinking that the problem now is the inability of governments to adapt to a new governance policy which will accommodate the modernization, they rather felt that the old system will remain unchanged.