What is it about government that makes people believe in it?

I'd really like to know the answer to this question. Time and time again, government fails to provide, fails to achieve, fails to live up to expections. It simply fails. People are constantly pointing out these failures and making a huge issue out of them. So, why is it that people seem to think that government will ever succeed. It is like the old adage, "trying something the same way over and over and expecting a different result". Do we really think that different people in government or different ideas in government or more government will somehow magically be able to change government into something it is not? Outside of what government was meant to do (provide security and protect our rights) it almost universally fails. It even fails at these two things on occasion, but in almost every other way, it seems to me, that it almost always fails. I'd love to have some real examples pointed out where it hasn't. I have a few in mind, but I'd like to know what others think rather than my setting the table. At any rate, I am an independent, and the main reason I am is because I think that both political parties in this country are largely full of it. They both already know what it took me way too long to figure out. What is this you ask? Both parties know they are both almost always wrong, since the extremes are rarely the answer, and they both know that government rarely succeeds at solving anything and so they have to pretend to believe it does and spout good sounding promises to us, the people, in order to get elected. Of course, they also never live up to those promises. This is the way it seems to me, at any rate. Perhaps I'm cynical. I don't believe I am. I've simply come to believe that if you want something done, and done right, then "we the people" have to do it ourselves, because we can't and we shouldn't ever rely on the government to do it for us.