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Attempt of a serious answer: it seems like it's really Republican (party) ideology that government should be small enough to be able to be drowned in a bathtub,
by bellyfullofbac 6y ago
Attempt of a serious answer: it seems like it's really Republican (party) ideology that government should be small enough to be able to be drowned in a bathtub, and any amount of money for the people is deemed sinful. Never mind that it makes sense to build good roads, fast trains, and even good schools to educate people.
Seems like the GOP has a "If we do x, that will prove our propaganda all this time has been wrong, and it's political suicide" problem. As an opposite example, they quickly agreed to Covid bailouts last year because blocking that money would've been an even faster way to commit political suicide.
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- BitwiseFool 6y agoEven Blue States have deficient infrastructure and lackluster public education. There are plenty of Blue States with Democrat super-majorities in state legislatures where the GOP can safely be ignored. Yet, the problems persist.
- indigochill 6y ago> ...government should be small enough to be able to be drowned in a bathtub... The key piece you're missing is that this is the case for national government, because the rest should be managed at, ideally, the local government level where citizens are able to self-govern, such as on city council meetings. That power should move up the organizational structure only as far as it needs to (for instance, you cannot build interstate highways at the city level). In a country the size of the US, consolidating political power at the national level turns politics into the spectator sport it's become.