The Federal Government

The government is seen as a bunch of people out there...in DC...trying to run our lives. The Democrats are seen as elites. The Republicans also were seen as largely controlled by corporations.

This all changed with Trump. He pointed mostly to regulations. But also to the behaviors that changed on the part of MAGA supporters. The rules of the game. Now it is perfectly OK to point to foreigners as someone to reject, throw out. Even women are to return to a lesser role. MAGA voters are finally able to say just exactly what they think. All topics that they label woke and connect to the federal government. In practice it was mostly fairness in hiring that the feds carried out.

The hatred of federal government has always been there, but MAGA folk can now say they want to reduce it to basically nothing. Government is nothing but waste. Too much regulation!

To achieve this, they voted for Trump. Many showed up to vote for one line of the ballot: president. The down ballot stuff is just....polticians, issues, regular poltics. They do not care so much about that. Let my local people vote in whoever and run things in my states. Let's keep the feds out of it.

I posted a little thing at one of our congressmen's Facebook page. He is in a purple district.

I said: 

Would you like to have the "elected back 2026" award? You will need to stop Trump from repealing the ACA and Elon from cutting my SS by 30%. You and 10 others in blue districts.

Trumpster said:

hahaha your a moron

That is as eloquent as Trumpsters get.

There was some thought in the post below that:

Quit patting yourself on the back. It's time to clean up our Government and cut it down. You've had no problem spending money we didn't have. Now its time to clean house .

The congressman has a hard time. He needs to see when Trumpism is waning. At that time he can talk regular issues. He can look like supporting some benefits. But also look like a frugal Republican, the old time Republican from our state.


As far as the MAGA folk go, they will actually not learn much from the next 2 or 4 years. The government does a lot of invisible stuff for citizens. The benefits are not obvious. Think of it as the oxygen mask in the airplane. It's up there, probably. I have never seen one come down. But it will save your life if the air plane undergoes a number of dangerous events. And it can still fly you to the nearest airport.

Or you can compare the government to ecology. If you remove a species from a habitat, the effects will be seen a few steps up or down the food chain. We can't kill all mosquitos for example. The effects of the animals also relate to the vegetation. So the governmnet is like that. A complex invisible hand. Just like Capitalism is, on the "free" side.

WHAT WILL WE SEE IN 2025?

Pretty much the same as in 2016, but much worse. Michael Lewis went through the important cabinet postitions in this book in 2018. The guy that owns AccuWeather got to run the Weather Bureau. The dpartment of energy is not just about drilling. It covers nuclear reactors and nuclear waste and so on. I'm re-reading it now.