From Rachel_P._Kovner:

It was once said that (and I quote -very- loosely) "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance", therefore, 'bad government' is probably not a result of some kind of evil or malicious people, but just people who do not guard their rights.

It could also be said, somewhat loosely, that criminal theft is just the result of people who do not protect their property. For them it's as easy as falling off a log: the big G will just keep getting worse and taking over more (Somebody Stop Me!).

From :Perry E. Metzger:

Actually, as public choice economic theory has shown, bad government tends to be the inevitable result of the evolutionary pressures on government and government officials.

The 'evolutionary' pressure on Government tends to go in the direction away from keeping accurate accounts, including keeping an eye on the consequences of policies & procedures. They would rather not note what the real source of new goods and wealth is, and they would rather not keep track of the success/failure of their legislative constructs. All this pressure towards backsliding on the evolutionary scale means that the big G will accept being as dependent on others, as some would like to be upon them. At the very least, they're not very admirable for making the rest of the population work so hard to prevent them from taking everybody down with them. Blanc