I fall into the “no other government available” category. Our government system is the most bizarre thing ever. There is an election, sure, but most of the time people don’t know who they are voting for. The candidates never go out preaching things to their citizens, some of them even seem to pop out from nowhere. All you have is a long list with names and what the candiates have done. But how the hell do you know if anyone is any good just by looking at some generic lines and not actually interacting with them? Voting is compulsory, so everyone just randomly choose a person and hope for the best. No one cares whether they have chosen a saint or a demon because after the election everything just stay the same. The government system has been the same for years, and the election is merely a change in members. So really, there is nothing else for us to fall back on, although the system is like a tired old man dragging his balls around and shouting at everyone and everything.
That is what I really hate about the government: they just refuse to change. Years after years they hold onto their outdated “communist philosophy” like it’s the ultimate Bible, despite the fact that they have already failed at least twice before. They also don’t have any realistic short term goal. Ask them what they want to achieve in aby aspect, and a typical answer you get from them is always: “Until <insert year>, <insert anything> will <insert any ideal future bullshit> according to the communist philosophy”. You can’t even point out their mistakes either, for fear they will flip out. They just have that unexplained adversity for change.
So, people are going to cling on a self-center old man for a long time. Not necessarily out of trust, but out of fear that there will be no one else to protect them when the old man dies because, let’s face it, although people whine about the old man all time, no one has enough courage or talent to take the lead and make a change.