09-16-2021, 09:48 PM
(09-16-2021, 05:20 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(09-16-2021, 09:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Right abandoned the idea of small government when Small Government no longer served Right ends.
Not sure it is that abandoned. When you look at environmentalism, infrastructure and Covid, they are still pushing in the don't solve the problem direction. They may have changed their language, but they would still prefer not to pay the cost of taking action in such areas.
They are as big spenders, if on crony capitalism, military expenditures, prisons, and business subsidies. They are all for infrastructure so long as monopolistic profiteers are in command -- and they are delighted to use the treasury to sweeten deals. They can be just as reckless in spending.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.