Corporations want the pubic to think that governments are incapable of running services for them. Then the public service can be asset striped and run on a shoe

Corporations want the pubic to think that governments are incapable of running services for them. Then the public service can be asset striped and run on a shoestring. When the private owners get called out for providing a bad service their veiled argument is "well at least the government isn't running it, that would be even worse!". Obviously there are cases where the government fails and that can't be given a free pass, but this is too often assumed to be the outcome and the only solution is privatisation. Even in the UK where there is the feeling that government is totally incompetent the NHS keeps providing at least a baseline level of medical care expected from a western country. This is despite being sabotaged at every opportunity over the last 12 years by the Tory party.