For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.
When you look at their goals for what they’re trying to do, they do want the government to protect their interests, and nothing else. They want an army and a police force, and everything else the government does they want dismantled. To accomplish the latter they must convince the public that the government is bad and can’t help them. That’s why the government always does little enough and less that’s helpful whenever Republicans take power.
When you look at their goals for what they’re trying to do, they do want the government to protect their interests, and nothing else. They want an army and a police force, and everything else the government does they want dismantled. To accomplish the latter they must convince the public that the government is bad and can’t help them. That’s why the government always does little enough and less that’s helpful whenever Republicans take power.