@odd I don't think you are mistaken. And it makes me a little crazy that if you want to Make America Great Again, you should want to undo what undid the greatness. I.E. trickle-down economics. But nooooo.
@springdew Qualified to add "partial" to "greatness", as there are huge swaths of the population for whom America was never great.
@odd It seems to all boil down to a lot of people simply not liking being told what to do. Don’t tell me to wear a mask. Don’t tell me to buy health insurance. Don’t tell me to stop using my gas guzzler. Although I imagine these folks will cash their stimulus checks.
@frankm I can partly understand them. I don’t like to be told what to do either, but I know that there is so much that I’m not an expert in, so I trust the judgment of smart people managing some aspects of my life.
I imagine they feel left down by the government and (well-payed) experts, but the solution seems, (to me), not to have less government but more.
Yes, taxes are going to be higher, but it will create more jobs, universal health care will not make you bankrupt if you’re having a child delivery or hospitalization, and regulations will keep the food and beverages safe, the environment safe, and if the organs were to prevent major business mergers, (de facto monopolies), you would pay less for the utilities.
@odd No no, they did it all themselves with no help from anyone else. Those roads, trains, telephones, power lines, shipping lanes, air traffic, and education had nothing to do with it.
@odd @frankm What is especially frustrating is that more government sometimes can create more freedom. Universal healthcare* makes it far easier to leave your job when you get tired of your boss telling you want to do.
* Doesn’t have to be provided by the government, just regulated by it. The Netherlands has universal coverage via a supercharged version of ObamaCare.