Legitimacy?
Governments are often presented as rule of law and protection for their citizenry. What then is a government that has abandoned these principals, that uses its monopoly on violence to shield the rich and powerful and bind the average citizen into life long serfdom through debt? Often the “justice” system disproportionately applies the hammer to those suffering under the weight of concentrated power. It goes as far as vilifying people for being crushed by its dysfunction. Attempts to lock people in permanent loops of criminal action then punishes them further for following the trajectory it enforces on them. It would seem the justice system's true purpose is to protect the uneven distribution of wealth and suffering, to ensure the burden of the power hungry stays on the masses. It is betrayal, like Judas, it trades integrity for wealth, betrays the innocent into suffering, confinement, debt, and the slow death of disempowerment to protect the powers and principalities that be. If the justice system is plainly a shield for power running on the logic of Judas, it is illegitimate and should be regarded as so. A government that cannot apply justice fairly or protect its people from the vile predators in and under it is not a government. It's a farm, a pyramid scheme that thrives on crushing, Illegitimate in nature. The hammer is not in the hands of any judge who bows to money over truth, just silver notes and fancy suits, ties like nooses paying homage to Judas himself. The judges live in lavish wealth while courts become increasingly morally bankrupt. The illusion of legitimacy is dead.