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This meshes well with the established policies of the Republican party, which is to campaign on how badly the Government runs, promise to fix it, get into offic
by ToucanLoucan 2y ago
This meshes well with the established policies of the Republican party, which is to campaign on how badly the Government runs, promise to fix it, get into office, then break the Government more, then run back to your constituency and say "I can't believe how bad the Government is, get me back in there so I can keep working on it."
- eyelidlessness 2y agoThey’ve long abandoned the pretense of fixing anything, and have gotten a lot of buy in from their base to just torch stuff and leave it in ruins. Unfortunately (for all of us, including for their base) this isn’t actually what people want or need, except the ideologues pushing it with a clear understanding of the expected outcomes. The base just infers that the ruin of these “inefficient” programs is a noble end in itself, because their supposed inefficiency is the problem with the programs themselves.
- ethbr1 2y agoTo be fair, conservative ideologues over-shrinking the US government is an improvement on conservative ideologues invading foreign countries, which happened last conservative-populist time. So at least we're not invading Iraq?
- ModernMech 2y agoThey're talking about invading Canada.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoAnd Greenland.
- ModernMech 2y agoAnd Mexico, and Gaza for that matter!
- eyelidlessness 2y agoDepends why you objected to the Iraq war, I think. From a moral perspective, green lighting the permanent ethnic cleansing of Gaza sure seems worse to me.