Replying to Avatar Trey Walsh

But Trey, I thought you were a progressive and love big government!

False, sort of. I’m 100% for the government enshrining into law at a federal level protections and freedoms for all Americans over things like healthcare, lgtbqia protections, gay marriage, abortion access, etc.

I am for really effectively managed social safety net programs (which I’ve seen first hand are not effectively managed).

But I am not for increased government bureaucracy and government managing projects that are headed suited, in a liberal, capitalist democracy, for private intentions or private/public partnerships at the very least.

Communist China runs public transit really well because they have complete authority and control. The U.S. is not structured in the same way (and god I would never want that) so it should not aspire to these ends via the same means as China. nostr:note1r773uzx5rjgx39cdh0uu0a0x78wqtug09l23chr23zrdsug5l0zqgvxmt6
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Kuzushi 2y ago

IMHO the "how big a role should our government play?" Conversation is kind of secondary to "Do our institutions represent the will of the people?" If the answer to the latter question is no, then even when the government does nothing they do it maliciously. This is why the laissez faire discourse never touches the root of the problem in American politics, and effectively becomes arguing in favor of the status quo.

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