the only reason this works is because the citizens are unorganized and unarmed.
if people gather in groups of tens of people to protect each other against the government there is no way they could throw anyone in jail.
It is a clever type to live and socialize with other people, there are people that are born leader, and it is in our nature to serve and to follow a leader, and it is a goodway to maintain our leaders by giving them budget and a payment for his or her service, and that budget and payment we give is called tax