The one job that govern-cements are good at doing, democide.
And you can watch it in America. Slowly starving people out of homes, and soon out of food. It is evil, but they always have a good story. "It was the dreaded 'chicken POX' the chickens all need to be killed"
Government isn't even very good at wars and mass murder, though, and that is our saving grace. The same incompetence and waste that permeates everything they do is still there in the most overtly destructive aspects of statecraft, thank God.