re: #255 Romantic Heretic

They’ll never say so out loud but they want the government to fail. As Paul Krugman sarcastically put it, “If government did anything good then people wouldn’t understand that government is bad.”

Also, I believe many of them, the theocrats and authoritarian chief among them, want the government to collapse so they can institute the dictatorship they think America should be. So that lesser beings and the unpatriotic should suffer as they deserve.

They want the government to be weaker so they won’t be regulated and can have their own ‘security.’ They being the elite Randian capitalists.

Yes, I would agree except for total collapse. Government is in their way, weak government can be controlled by them. So spending marketing $ to talk trash about and weaken confidence in the government is an advertising expense.