I really like that point about how government drug policies in North America lead to gang formation in South America. It seems that government creates and resolves conflict, and sometimes get blamed for doing too much of the former and not enough of the latter.

I guess the more that I've thought about running for office, and more so, actually governing, the more that I've started to see how government can get blamed for so many things, direct and indirect. For example, some company moving overseas and laying off its employees, and people blaming the government because it didn't prohibit the company from making that move and protecting people from that company, more so than being angry at the company. Almost like being more angry at the parent who doesn't protect us from our sibling than the sibling who is hitting us.

Anyways, I appreciate our back and forth, thank you for helping me see things a bit differently.