Constantly, it is argued that this person or that person needs to be held accountable for their actions. Our focus is in all the wrong places.
"Imprison Hillary!" "Impeach Trump!" "Prosecute cops!"
Without fail, arguments are made that individuals need to pay the consequences. How is this argued to be done? Through the very system that gave them the power to commit these wrongs in the first place. Herein lies the flaw: looking at individuals as the problem rather than the system.
It is the system that is the problem. The only difference between a mafia and a government is that one is small and the other is large; the degree of influence of government is much more substantial and so it becomes a government.
Just like a mafia, extorting businesses in their area of influence in exchange for "protection", so too does a government extort those in its area of influence in exchange for protection.
Just like a mafia, where if individuals do not comply, force is used so that they suffer the consequences of not adhering to the mafia's will, so too does a government enforce mandatory compliance.
A government, in its sweeping influence, is a system that has managed to reach a degree of power that it is able to convince people to follow it. Willing participants allow for the government to be "friendly". Unwilling participants lead to government showing its true colors.
When we blame Obama or Trump or Putin or Assad or Kim Jong-Un or any individual, their role in the grand scheme of the global system's overpowering influence on individuals is a drop in the bucket. If we stood against the system, then no one would have this ability to cause such sweeping oppression and chaos on others. And to then imply that the very system allowing this to exist brings order through judgment is extremely short-sighted. In truth, bringing judgment on individuals simply exonerates the system from fault, providing a patsy so that the system can continue to thrive.
I can't say it enough times: Fuck the system.