"I criticize the government, not the people." Sam, with all due respect--and as a couple of other respondents have already noted--that is a distinction without a difference. In the 2020 presidential election--the most significant one in decades, and one that attracted the highest percentage of the eligible electorate in 120 years--less than 67% of those qualified to vote bothered to do so.

The electorate is the foundation upon which the American government has been built. Every decision made by our government can ultimately be traced back to the decisions made by the electorate. And even in a vote as crucial as that of 2020, one out of every three voters failed to carry out his or her responsibility.

Another 30+ percent of the electorate sought--despite the chaos, the racist dog whistles, the impeachment and the disastrous mismanagement of the pandemic--to retain Trump. That means that well over 60% of the electorate either failed to carry out our one, vitally important constitutional duty, or cast a vote for a man patently unqualified for--and tempermentally unsuited for--the highest office in the land.

So thanks, Sam, but no thanks. You cannot separate the American people from our government any more than you can separate a house from its foundation. We the people are responsible--and we damned well need to start acting like it.