Sometimes the idea that there is no need for any government gains popularity in society. The only thing worse than a tyrant is when all your neighbors are tyrants, which is what occurs when there is no government at all. 

The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote that in society with no government:

 "...men live without other security, than what their own strength...shall furnish....In such condition there is no place for industry; because the fruit therein is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building...no arts; no letters; no society; and which is the worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

These same problems occur when there is tyrannical government--or no government at all.