The United States is destroying itself -- Rebecca Solnit

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49. This has been the goal of the conservative movement for almost eighty years.

Conservatives believe the government should provide only three basic functions. The military, the police, and the courts for business contracts. Social services and welfare should be provided by the church. Conservatives have been playing the long game while working towards this goal. For most people the government has always been a distant black box with no knowledge or understanding of how it works what it does or how it benefits us. Mostly because we never educated people about government much, mostly thanks to conservative efforts to prevent that to keep people ignorant and in the dark about what they were doing to destroy the government and the country. So the end result is that too many people supported the conservative agenda without realizing that they were screwing themselves and everyone else.