Since I ran across this image ages ago, there's a game I like to play in my head: whether I'm in a building, on a highway, walking down the street, I erase all of the buildings, roads, and people and imagine standing in the middle of the underlying landscape.

I've started playing this game with the government.

I imagine the Whitehouse with all the politicians and lobbyists and erase the Whitehouse and Washington D.C., leaving just the people milling about in a field. I imagine Congress and erase the congress building. I remember seeing a screenshot of a post from someone claiming to be nonbinary, saying that they breakdown crying whenever they're in nature instead of a densely populated city, which is unrelated but hilarious.

Government is not an entity. Government is not a location.

Government is a group of people existing in space like the rest of us.