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I'll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Small gov't is usually a lie anyway. It's a smokescreen for "actually we're still going to tell you what to do."
They strip away everything that actually helps people, so in that way it's really small.
So small it'll fit in your vagina.
They compartmentalize accountability. It's easy to say it's some other guy. Then he gets fired, replaced and fights for the chance to have it happen again.
It’s small because they have zero oversight and they only need to worry about one party. Hurray!
The smallest government is a dictatorship.
Small dick tater
Oh and their idea of small government is letting the rich stomp on you while police tanks roll though the streets mowing down anyone who doesn't bow to them.
And also way more expensive than big government
Well of course, it's about less taxes for the rich not less taxes. It's ok, all that wealth is gonna trickle down any time now.
If government is actually the top power on the land with oversight over and the power to rule over everything, then the power of voters which choses the people who lead said government controls the top power on the land, which is what's known as Democracy (even when imperfect).
However if government ties its own hands so that it doesn't really oversee or rule over the domains were Money has the most power, then it's not the top power on the land anymore - Money is - and the votes of people do not control the highest power on the land anymore, they only control a secondary power, so what you have in not Democracy anymore, it's Oligarchy - Money is not democratic since doesn't have any "one person one vote" rule and instead some have billions of times more power than others.
"Small government" is really just a slogan for a government which has had its hands tied by reducing its funding so that it's unable to oversee, much less rule over, the areas where Money dominates, especially when it comes to facing the wealthiest people and companies. Mind you this only works if the other elements of Democracy are kept, so Money still wants a Judiciary and Law Enforcement independent of Government to uphold their ownership of things and stop the plebes from taking their shit, just a government weakenned in all other areas and unable to fight Money in the Courts.
and by continuing to give the people the right to vote adds a veil of legitimacy to the power of the government so there is less of a chance of a uprising.
which is what’s known as Democracy
Just because it's "known" as "democracy" because politicians and their crony media capitalists have been throwing the word around for a few centuries doesn't actually make it democracy.
Well, Money de facto ruling over massive domains in a country, including access to life essentials, is the very opposite of Democracy.
If these Republican idiots actually believed in small government, they'd be Libertarians.
They'd still be idiots, but they'd be Libertarians.
Both love big gov, just slight differences in which wars they want to support and which industries will get government funding.
If Libertarians were libertarians, they'd oppose the Taft-Hartley Act.
If libertarians were libertarians, they'd know what the Taft-Hartley Act is... and maybe, who Taft and... Hartley are to begin with, but only if we're being really optimistic.
Republicans want tyranny, not small government.
Government so small it fits not only within your bedroom, but within your uterus!
Me when "small government" supporters don't start by defunding the police
It's never "small government" when it comes to funding pig.
Fuck the poor, fuck the old, fuck the environment, fuck soldiers and veterans, fuck the sick, fuck food safety...
"small government"
As long as you're a Cis white Christian male that didn't go to college
There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
Surely small Government means repealing all that red tape enforcing individual property rights too?
Pick up my guitar and play
Updoots for use of "go on, get!".
There's a new improved version being pushed now which introduces itself by saying "fuck everyone except the incredibly wealthy".
Reagan small government except it's inescapable public debt forever