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> the new mantra of "Government can't do anything, the markets have to regulate that problem." That's been the conservative line for 35+ years. How is that ne
by cptskippy 2y ago
> the new mantra of "Government can't do anything, the markets have to regulate that problem."
That's been the conservative line for 35+ years. How is that new?
- jepj57 2y ago[flagged]
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI think more like 70 years at this point. It's been SOP for the conservatives to get elected to govern, make government worse at every turn while enriching themselves and their friends, and then turning around to the public and being like "look how badly this works, clearly we need to cut taxes since it isn't working" and rinse and repeat until every institution in the world is borderline non-functioning.
- kbolino 2y agoIt was Jimmy Carter and not Ronald Reagan who scrapped the civil service competency exams. Government getting worse has been a two-party affair for quite some time. No one has any incentive to fix it, and the system is so vast, so complex, and so self-serving that no one even has the power to fix it (as things stand).
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoThe Democrats in America are highly conservative. Not as conservative as the Republicans, but still very conservative. We don't have a left and a right here, we have a hard right and a center right.
- kbolino 2y agoCertain "hard right" parties like the PAP in Singapore and the LDP in Japan have placed a competent civil service at the forefront of their policies. Though in many ways, the US may appear more conservative than its "peers", in other ways, it appears more liberal.