Despite your objection I would like to know why you think the phrase “we get the government we deserve” is not accurate?
After all it is the very people we install in office who put in place the policies which have brought us to where we are today and have been in the past. That is not to say government is all bad all the time, it certainly is not but good or bad it is a government “by the people”. The problem is it is not always a government “for the people.
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
When the Founders placed their names below that quote on July 4, 1776, they were putting their lives on the line beginning the pursuit of a “a more perfect union”. w
That was the moment where collective condemnation was warranted. But the current political culture suggests the prospect of being governed in a Banana Republic is worth the risk, if it means the opposition is defeated.
Obstruction has become viable tactic in doing the people’s business. Is it acceptable? It depends on whom you ask. It’s fundamentally abhorrent because at the core it places party over country.