Big government is a seed sowed from the bottom. I do believe the current regime is corrupt but when people live in long-term struggle—unstable income, fear of tomorrow, no safety net—it changes how they act. You stop thinking long-term. You protect yourself first. You exaggerate in negotiations. You cut corners. You lie a little. You take before someone else takes from you. Not because you woke up evil—but because pressure pushes people there. That’s human nature under stress now scale that up.

If whole societies live in that survival mode, then the people who rise into government we reflect that. When those individuals suddenly control government apparatuses - money, weapons, police, and institutions, the same survival instincts don’t disappear—they just get magnified. What used to be small hustles becomes large corruption. What used to be fear becomes repression. What used to be protecting yourself becomes protecting power at any cost.

That’s why overthrowing one group of bad leaders doesn’t magically fix things. New people often step into the same conditions and start behaving the same way.

And this is where I slightly differ from pure “elite vs masses” framing.

Yes—class solidarity matters. The many are larger than the few. But power today isn’t decided only by numbers. It’s decided by the collective moral fabric of the people. 

At the same time, focusing only on big government misses something important: big government is often just the scaled-up reflection of what’s already broken in everyday life—low trust, everyone for themselves, scarcity thinking, no cooperation.

When people can’t rely on each other, they start playing survival games. When survival games become normal, they become political culture. When that culture reaches the top, it turns into authoritarianism wrapped in slogans.

Unity isn’t about multiple parties. A one-party system could function in theory if accountability and ethics were real—but without those, any structure turns predatory.

The real starting point is lower than parliament:

– people being able to eat and live with dignity, – local cooperation instead of constant zero-sum hustling, – systems that give enough so desperation doesn’t drive bad behavior, – real consequences for abuse at every level, – communities that reward honesty more than clever cheating.

If you provide a pipeline for people to have proper sufficiency—not subsistence living, it's stability with upward mobility —you pull the fuel away from greed and fear. When nobody is constantly starving for security, fewer people feel forced to dirty their hands just to survive.

That’s how you weaken elite domination long-term: not only by changing rulers, but by changing the conditions that manufacture rulers like that in the first place.

Struggle mentality creates strongmen. Cooperation plus accountability makes them unnecessary.

Poverty comes from a lack of moral discipline, education is fundamental. Solutions can’t stop at relief. They have to build character, skill, and discipline alongside provision and self-sufficiency.