I recall a Reagan era quote about a government small enough to drown in a bathtub but a military big enough to put lasers in space.
A government just small enough to fit in your bedroom.
Should be “fuck the 99%”.
The “middle class” doesn’t think they are poor so this message will fall flat on them. In fact they might support it, because then they get to kick down on someone.
Except “small government” is the same size it just funnels money to military contractors and debt for wealthy peoples tax cuts
It’s a grift
A large chunk of American citizens fall for the libertarian and “small gov” pandered lies, every single time.
Sometimes I think about all of the lies I was told as a kid like “on one side people want to pay less taxes, and on the other people are willing to pay more to help others” when really it’s “cut programs that help people, pay more taxes unless you’re so rich it doesn’t matter, and actively commit as many evils as you can think of, or alternatively don’t do all that.” Like, there’s supposed to be a silver lining no matter which side wins. But no, all bad all the way down and the benefits that motivated the boomers in my life to cause this terror aren’t even happening. Weren’t groceries supposed to get cheaper or something to help the facism go down?
And doesn’t investigate Tesla’s automatic driving mode.
I think the idea is to have a small government of one dictator who tells everyone else what to do.
By this logic the perfect government is where everyone votes on everything.
Which sounds nice until you realize we’re dealing with humans who are dumb.
Dumb is better than malevolent.
Maybe his big brother hiding just behind… Big corporations.
