> The only thing that prevents the government organ from taking away all our hard negotiated rights over hundreds of years is the fact they're afraid they'll get strung up on fence posts with their intestines hanging out while children pelt them with vegetables and vultures consume their rotting flesh.

This is why Democracy exists - voters express their displeasure by voting people out of office. Save a lot of beheadings a la the French Revolution.

In Europe, a similar dynamic exists for armed conflicts between nations and Eurovision.