Bad government is everywhere, but many governments use power broadly responsibly. Private entities are less accountable than elected officials, and they get mor

Bad government is everywhere, but many governments use power broadly responsibly. Private entities are less accountable than elected officials, and they get more scrutiny from the press. That power you talk about is real, but frankly we tried having 0 labor standards in the 19th and start of the 10th century. The vaunted powerful middle class of the 50s and 60s also took place after the largest government programs in our history (the war, the interstate highway system, etc) and also along with very strong labor protections and high taxes that have been all erased since the 80s. Faith in the US government in particular took a nosedive during and after the Vietnam war. I guess I don’t understand why this is the line in the sand, and why we must depend on private profit-motive entities to provide for basic welfare and an economic safety net when we can see it working in developed countries around the world.