One of the most brilliant things I've ever read ...

From the book we're reading in Metaphysics:

If the unimaginable evils which a new world war would bring upon us were genuinely imagined, to any extent at all, that new world war would become impossible. But do not let us be led into supposing that this failure to reflect and to imagine is merely the fault of a comparatively few individuals in positions of power and responsibility; these few individuals are nothing at all without the millions of others who place a blind trust in them.

- Gabriel Marcel,
The Mystery of Being - Volume I: Reflection and Mystery

Though this is about World War II the idea still applies. We cannot blame the evils of the world on our government officials when we allow the systems that cause them to go on without change.