No, you haven’t.
When you sense that you are being hated by your government and deserving of punitive rule, that should alert you to a symptom of something else. Take heed, it’s dangerous. It’s also always entirely unwarranted, as history clearly demonstrates – simply a means of compelling the masses by promulgating an illusion. Compassionate people naturally want to listen. When you abuse having their attention, it can be used to transmit accusations and ridicule. Leaders who are used to climbing the corporate or political ladder are used to blowing in-your-face put-downs into the megaphone, just like posturing sports heroes before a spectacle. That pollutes our airwaves with garbage. The nastier and more outrageous, the more the media repeats and competes for advertising dollars. Of course that all goes viral, spreading like an infection. No wonder many among us are tempted to join up sides and huddle together. You can say “goodbye” to representation and democratic rule under that climate. See the root of the problem? We hand the microphone to a leader who is still high from the election kill. Nuh-uh, I say. When representation is selected by fit and not form, by matching your voter profile to the leaders empowered with the means to enact change, the base motivation to posture and conquer is gone. Anybody with a history of feeding off that diet, which leads to an obesity of tyranny, would be deselected. Such individuals are better placed elsewhere, if anywhere at all.
Electing thoughtful and accountable leadership is our right as citizens, and the only continuing hope for civilization.