The Purpose of Government

What is the proper role of government? There is a lot of debate over this, but really it's very simple to understand if you look at it properly. In a democracy, representatives are elected to positions of power so that the government will do the will of the people. So the proper role of government is quite simply to be whatever the people want it to be.

Now, if the government stops fulfilling the will of the people, we are no longer in a democracy. We're now in a situation where the government is acting in the interests of someone other than the people, meaning we could have devolved into an oligarchy or a dictatorship. This is, I'm afraid, what has happened to our government. It seems to be controlled by big money interests far more than it is by American voters.