Try, if you can, to imagine that the government is not a single monolithic entity. Or you could just go through your comment and replace every instance of "government" with "people" for all the sense that would make.
[EDIT:] Apparently this is not clear to everyone, but there is a logical difference between the proposition that two sets differ in some salient respect (e.g. that only those in the NSA may "illegally" spy on other Americans, with impunity), and the proposition that they differ in every respect. A careful reading of the previous paragraph will reveal that I have claimed the former.
What a terribly silly thing to say.
"there is a difference between people who work at X and the average American."
You are claiming that every single employee that works at NSA can in no way, shape, or form be considered an average American. All 30-50k or however many of them there are, they just can't be average Americans?
I mean, I totally agree. I bet they don't have lives outside of work. Probably none of them have kids. I bet they've never been married, or divorced. I'm sure they all rent under pseudonyms, none of them actually buy a house.
Hobbies, pshaw, all they care about is their job, and breaking the law as often as they can. Every single one, a zealot to the cause, insanely loyal to their employer. They don't have bad days at work, or don't feel like going in, because damn it, they're different than the average American.
I mean, there's no way that they just need to put food on the table, or can't leave the area because they have joint custody of their children. That kind of thing only happens to the average American, not NSA employees. By gosh, the horror of even considering that most of them are in fact average Americans, I'm getting tremors down my spine just thinking about it.
That is, it's compromised in some way, and therefore rules in favor of Deep State type things all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpsJKQR_ZE http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/Contents.pdf
No seriously. Think about it. It really is as simple as that. Apple doesn't have to force people to buy their devices.
People aren't extorted for their benefit, but the extorter's, even if the extortion is shrouded in brainwashing, propaganda, rituals and so on.
So once you accept that taxation is extortion and politicians are psychopaths, you'll start being able to make sense of the insanity of the world.
This book thoroughly destroys most of the pro-state arguments people have come up with: http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/Contents.pdf
Are you uncomfortable with reading that? -Well why might that be? What sense does it make? Keep going anyway.