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I think most "small government" people change their tune when they find out that "big government" was behind their Medicare/Social Security payouts, their indus
by EA-3167 2y ago
I think most "small government" people change their tune when they find out that "big government" was behind their Medicare/Social Security payouts, their industry subsidies, and all of the things that keep them from dying on the job.
The gap between the ideology and the reality is deep enough to fall into forever.
- jghn 2y agoThere's a reason why there's a whole genre of images on the internet of protestors holding signs with some variation of "keep your government hands out of my Medicare"
- krapp 2y ago>The gap between the ideology and the reality is deep enough to fall into forever. Kind of like people describing DEI as "anti-white racism" despite the most common beneficiaries of DEI being white women.