> If you trace how first governments formed… it’s literally true.

As far as we know the first governments predated written history, so I'm not sure how you'd ever be able to demonstrate this.

Modern 'democratic' govts are actually a sophisticated form of the what is typically considered the mafia. Killing their rivals has been replaced with 'defeating' their rivals in an election. So now they need to worry less if their rivals will kill them.

Then they also they send you a nice itemized printed tax bill versus the the mafia which would send their henchmen to knock at your door for the protection money. All in all in the west humanity has progressed! /s