As a voting citizen, one is more in the position of a stockholder in a large business than a servant in a large business. And any shareholder in any business wants it run in a businesslike manner.
In a large business everything is top down and whether you like it or not you must abide by the decision. Not even Obama could command in that way. There are three branches. There are the voters. There are the permanent gvmt employees. There is the media. You have to be a politician that’s all there is to it. I don’t think a gvmnt run as a business would be any more successful than a business run like a democratic republic.