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whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“Government should be run like a business” sounds like a totalitarian religion.

So basically the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted with separation of powers and checks and balances, right?

I thought these people were cosplaying traditionalists.

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10001110101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah, these people are ignorant of and don’t care about civics. The ignorance of the one guy surprised me, because they went to a decent college, but didn’t even know what gerrymandering was.

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- vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  And this boys, girls, and the Eldritch entity in my cupboard is why the humanities are so important, if you want other examples go watch the Behind the Bastards episodes on the Zizians.
  
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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If you want to understand them more, I think the problem is you’re seeing different aspects to what they do.

‘Large’ government with lots of power might sound more like totalitarianism, overseeing many aspects of life that - in the opinion of many - ought to be left to people’s freedom.

Running the government like a business, on the other hand, implies having pressures on it to do only what achieves its aims, and do that efficiently. And a CEO-president means the power to fix the government without being restricted by bureaucracy.

… Of course to me, by that point, it sounds like a king, exactly as you said. And running a government as a business sounds about as stupid as you can get. But these things aren’t exact, and understanding how a different perspective can make something look good helps us to understand the people with that perspective. It also helps us see things to improve that our perspective might be missing.

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- whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.
  
  The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.
  
  I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.
  
  I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.
  
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  - milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I presume most Republican voters didn’t anticipate Trump wrecking the system of accountability and checks in government, or don’t understand what’s happening. I’m sure many think he really is destroying the bad that’s allegedly entrenched in the system, and a good one will settle in its place.
    
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