“Party of small government” was always marketing rather than reality.
The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?
Submitted 22 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Feyd@programming.dev 21 hours ago
RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
It was never about small government. It was about exploitation and conteol.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The Republican party was never about smaller government.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
It was always ‘small government for thee, big government for me’. There was never a moment when the republican party was unified in being small government for everyone.
innermachine@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
When Republicans didn’t have the majority they believed in “small govt state rights” so they could do whatever they want in their red bubbles. Now that they hold all the cards, their pro government so they can force their ways in blue bubbles. Not the best way of articulating my point but that’s my thoughts on when they switched. Next time we have a blue majority, they will be pro small govt and anti fed again. Always been this way pretty much on both sides of the aisle.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They never were, you just fell for their propaganda.
Republicans have done nothing but cyclically crash the economy for my entire life.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
let’s not be too negative. they have also made themselves very rich by doing so.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 14 hours ago
It was ALWAYS just virtue-signalling. All of it. They were never the party of small government, they just like to say they are and they even had you fooled.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Because it was all bullshit.
Republicans only want small government when the government is stopping white collar crime.
Republicans are only fiscally conservative when they are not in the white-house.
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 21 hours ago
Money. “Small government” was code for “tax corporations less”. Everything the current RNC does is code for “Transfer as much money as possible from the government and poor people to rich people”.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
It was a tagline. It never meant anything, as evidenced by the rejection of every possible explanation or implementation.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 18 hours ago
It was a lie. They’re for whatever they’re currently in control of.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government
Really? When? Because all I ever heard was empty rhetoric when they weren’t in power.
kablez@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They also claimed to be for small business. But their concept of small business was inheritance class, angel investors, tech start ups and using family money as a launcch vehicle. They don’t consider entrepreneurs, career professionals or family run brick and mortar operations within their equations when they say “we need to help small business”, their concerns stop at ensuring tax cuts for ownership, inheritance and wealth, not for incentivising business risk taking, producitivty and market excellence.
echo@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
That was always a like, just like the rest of their platform. You’re just becoming aware of the reality, now.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
They have always been fascists, authoritarians. Nothing they say or have ever said is to be taken as in good faith. They’ve always changed “the rules” to suit their policies, and the democrats pretend that they have to play by “the rules” no matter if they’ve been engineered to castrate them. Government is theatre intended to distract us from realizing that we are all in this together. Everything is a distraction. Celebrity idolatry, television and movies, sports, it’s all designed to keep our minds busy and occupied so that we don’t recognize that the systems of control of our society can be changed.
farmgineer@nord.pub 9 hours ago
Their goal (as is that of many politicians, CEOs, etc.) is to structure power, using whatever they can to make that happen. They then do whatever they need to to keep and expand that power, changing issues when the previous has run its course (either by being ‘solved’ or so clear they don’t care that they must pick another).
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
“Small government” only ever meant the removal of corporate regulations—in all other respects they were already above the law.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Corruption and Nixon/Reagan.
stoly@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It was always a lie. What they mean to say is that they won’t pass laws that create taxes or put in place systems that protect people from capitalists. That’s it. Other than that, they are happy to put all the money into war and the police.
marcos@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If you find a chart of their public debt, look what how it did for each president. Apparently, you will be surprised.
dan1101@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They apparently only want small government for Democrats and Democrat policies. Or it’s a campaign lie, like being a “fiscal conservative.”
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
They were never for small government.
Their idea of small government is a government that only has republicans in it.
CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
When they dropped the fascade
supernicepojo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
façade
Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
“Small government” for regulating corporations and helping people. “Big government” for helping oil companies, Israel, and whichever corporations pay them the most
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Greed, grift and a chance for these geriatric fucks to relive their childhood by playing “follow the leader”.
Zier@fedia.io 20 hours ago
Hypocrites & liars. Simple fact.
bluGill@fedia.io 21 hours ago
It was a minority that got some power over marketing. They have always voted small government when Democrats have the president office, and even more strongly when the Democrats also have congress. As soon as they get enough power to do anything they are big government.
Though I will grant slightly less big government than Democrats in the past. It isn't clear now.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
The short answer is always but the more correct answer is the right was never really after small government, because that means less control, but Reagan was the first to really embolden them.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 hours ago
It's like them championing state's rights. Or free market. They're all about the slogans if they get the votes, until they aren't.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 22 hours ago
They never were. They’re the party of corporate interests. When corporations wanted no regulation they championed small government. Now that they own all branches of government the corporations have their people at the helm so they want as much government control as possible because their guy will put it in good for them.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 20 hours ago
Don’t forget, we have not 1 but 2 corporate interest parties.
TaterTot@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Very true, but they do serve different purposes.
The Ratchet Effect
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I couldn’t have said it better.