“It’s called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals.”
If you get the reference, you are a champ in my book.
Comment on Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They don’t have “priorities”. They just don’t want to govern. They don’t want there to be a government. Every action they take is consistent with “undermine the concept of government”.
Any action that actually helped people would be governing. They don’t want to do that. It’s not priorities; if it were priorities, the Republican party would occasionally run the pool of abuse dry and be left with positive changes they could make, and then they’d work on those briefly until the bullshit-laws queue filled back up.
But that never happens, because it’s not priorities. It’s just being the opposite of whatever you think government is.
This country is full of people being governed who want a government, but they don’t understand that there’s an entire party that doesn’t want that.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
rchive@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes. They want paychecks without work, responsibility, or blame.
No. I see no evidence of that. Every chance people get to raise military or police spending or make up new laws to restrict people’s choices, they take it.
Mehphomet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The problem with that train of thought is that they were already rich when they got the job. Many of them actually spend more to get the job than the job even pays. They aren’t there for the pay, they are there for the power plays. Once you get in you know people, people mainly help those they are close to. Money is a means to an end (and integral to the storage process ) but it’s all about power and connections. Why else would someone pay $1M of their own money for a 50/50 shot at a job that pays $1.2M over 4 years?