Let's Blame the Government

I rise to nominate Government as the classical scapegoat for what is wrong with America.

Note that by "Government" I do not mean the current administration or the current Congress.

By "Government" I mean the traditional Concept of Government as humankind has conceived and operationalized it since the advent, some 4000 years ago, of the Hammurabic Method of Social Regulation.

That antiquated, anachronistic, and obsolescent Governance Model is long past its sell-by date, notwithstanding superficial modifications by Machiavelli, et al.