Omaha suburbs complaining about potholes, city converts them to dirt roads. No money to fix roads.

[Stonepounder]

17. This is what happens.

First you dumb down public education.
Then you saturate the airwaves with the likes of Faux News, Limbaugh, and Beck.
Then you pitch snake oil about trickle down economics and how our taxes are too high.

And you end up with a citizenry that simply does not understand what taxes are used for. They somehow think (if they think about it at all) that gubmint is just 'taking their money'. They don't understand where the money to fix roads, fill potholes, hire cops and firefighters,drive snow plows, and the like comes from. And if you try and explain it to them they get hostile and figure you are some sort of lbrul effete jerk who just doesn't understand what it takes to make Murica Grate again.

And the assholes in the State Capitol are perfectly content with that.