Why do cops and other government officials (and citizens) obey the illegitimate authority of tyrants?

[Randy]

The US is disfunctional enough as it is now without 313 million people asking questions of their elected officials and then when they don't get the answer they want they ask again or they rise up. Soon enough we have YOUR group that doesn't like or agree with the answers of the government rising up against MY group that does like the answers against that OTHER group that wants different answers and the OTHER OTHER group that wants even different answers.

YOU read the Constitution one way, I read it another, the Courts read it another way, the Government reads it yet another way. Everyone puts different import on different parts and things only continue to fall apart.