Unfulfilled needs of citizens. Governments do not change because governments have no motivation to move with the social evolution of societies as individuals continually develop new hierarchies of needs to fulfill their new interpretations of the four primary values. Governments remain crystallized in the state of social evolution of the times when they were formed because they have no feedback mechanisms from their publics to become aware of social changes. This explains how and why revolutions, revolts, and uprisings occur against democratic governments.
The formation of a democracy is a visible statement by citizens that their former political circumstances no longer provided the liberty they needed to fulfill the urgings of the four innate values for themselves or for their society. Matters are made worse when it appears that there is no hope of their needs being fulfilled due to the intransigent nature of their government and economy. Then, the right of self-determination by one becomes the right of self-determination by the many who have no institutionalized form of empowerment to effectively participate in changing the circumstances of their political situation.
For the American Colonists it meant political freedom to form a democratic nation where every person had the freedom to pursue their own life as a monarch of their own life. For the French Revolutionaries it meant economic freedom from impoverishment, when the 1% was divested of their land holdings and other properties.
Said another way, a democracy is the only form of government that has the potential to organically accommodate public trends of millions of individuals for fulfilling the values that have sustained our species, as they determine, within the restraints of liberty. That potential will never become fulfilled until democratic governments make decisions based on the same values that have motivated our species to adapt and survive. Until then, social and cultural
change, which is always dynamic to the public, will continue to chaff the relationship between citizens and their democratic governments, whether local, state, or national. Until democratic governments incorporate the seven values, democratic governments will always be out of synch with the public.
Organic morality. 27 When we search for a moral code for public executives and corporations, we find none. What we find is that corporations are far more clearly motivated than government because their purpose is to produce ever-increasing profits, higher rates of return on investments, dividends to stockholders, market share, reduced expenses, and to reduce any resistance or interference by government. Government, on the other hand has no focused motivation for its actions. Public executives are willing recipients of corporate largesse, with no publicly accepted code of morality to guide them. The affinity that corporations have for public executives is due to their commonality: Neither democratic governments at any level nor corporations have a formalized moral code to guide their relationship with each other or the public.
Organic democracy. There is an organic connection between a democracy and how it supports each individual to fulfill their pursuit of the four primary values of social sustainability. Democracies provide the nurturing social, political, and economic environment that encourages individuals to grow into their potential by making their own decisions to fulfill the four primary values as they interpret them. When we gain an understanding of this organic connection, we can appreciate how democratic cultures have become so personal to individuals, and the public. The identification and personalization between the individual and democracy is intimately organic to each person. This connection is immediately evident when we hear words to the effect that not just their country but also their democracy has become my democracy, our democracy. The culture that grows out of such an intimate identification makes for a powerfully fierce population who will resist encroachment of their ability to fulfill their species-driven hierarchy of needs.
27 Raphael, Daniel 2016. ORGANIC MORALITY: Answering the Most Critically Important Moral Questions of the 3rd Millennium, p 17 & 18, (see Link).