Small Government

Republicans have been vocal about wanting small government since Ronald Reagan lied that the scariest phrase one can hear is “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The former president insinuated that government is always the problem and never the answer.
Reagan’s wasn’t the attitude of most Republicans of his time. It is the attitude of the very wealthy, the one tenth of one percent who own nearly everything.
My Grandpa, Bill McGrew, fell four stories down an elevator shaft in 1959 because Purina was too God damned cheap to install doors on its elevators. Too bad there wasn’t an OSHA back then; I was only seven.
To get to St Louis from Cahokia you took highway 3 about ten or so miles to the bridge across the Mississippi, past the Monsanto plant in Sauget. Even in hundred degree heat (3.37 C), and this was before hardly any autos had AC, you had to roll the windows up or the air would literally burn your lungs! Rivers, lakes, and streams were so polluted they caught fire! The Environmental Protection Agency that the Trumpies bitch and whine about that Trump and Musk are gutting stopped that horror.
The one percent hate the EPA with a passion. Why? Because throwing your poisons in the river is a lot cheaper than disposing of it properly. Cleaning the filth from your smokestacks before you have to breathe the nasty shit is expensive. And the one percent worship wealth and hate anyone who interferes with their Plutus-given right to fuck everyone else over, everything else be damned.
Government regulations protect the ninety nine percent from the one percent. Of COURSE they hate government, so much that they invest millions to get rid of those pesky rules and regulations that keep them from fucking us over.
Now, why the working stiff wants small government is a huge mystery to me. Foolishly being misled by Ted Turner, a foreign one percenter from Australia?
Of course, a hundred percent of the mass media is owned by the one percent; not just Fox but every single media outlet. And the people who own the media hire PhDs in psychology to hack your brain.
You’re not a fool or extra gullible for voting for a one percenter, you’ve been brainwashed. Why do you think “woke” is such a hated epithet?