Government is mirror of a collectve it represents. Of those that vote for them, those that did not vote at all (which is basically agreeing with whatever majority votes for) and those that ignore problems. To be extreme, Hitler could not do a shit if he had no active and passive support of majority. Same goes for representative of every government. US, EU, China, Russia, even North Korea.

It is not government that is a problem, its people. People who are ok with corruption just to gain something small and irelevant in the big picture, people who are one issue voters, people who are supporting bad political systems etc.

Just like guns are not killing people governments are not taking our rights away, our compatriots are.