governments nowadays are for sure not there to serve people, they are a parasitic entity who's primary focus is keeping itself alive. If govs were there to serve people then the world would look significantly different.

Even if there are some individuals that have the inclination to do good the levels of bureaucracy and cargo cult thinking makes them just a cogs in the machine at best.

the incentive structures that exist in modern democracies are so perverted and dysfunctional that there is no way anything remotely useful could come out of government, the least from crumbling empires of the west.