Why AREN'T we giving them MORE power?

Everybody loves the gov't and the gov't loves us.


And protects us. Wraps us in a secure warm blanket of love. And gives us gifts!


And it asks for next to nothing in return for all this. You just have to do what they tell you and give them what they ask. And what's wrong with that? It's not like the gov't wields its power recklessly, or that it would ever go overboard and abuse that big chunk of nigh absolute power. Right?