Small Government Republicanism Is Gone:
Small-government Republicanism has been dead since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan. But now it has been staked, and its head has been cut off and stuffed with garlic.
I wonder if the entire American experiment is over. Over the past quarter century, we have endured a relentless assault on the very idea of a national government that does anything beyond the minimum — and even that is considered onerous. We have seen the national news media, once considered to be a bulwark against political arrogance, undermined to the point where few people trust anything they see, hear, or read. Any education beyond the elementary years — the three Rs — is attacked by religious fanatics, ignoramuses of every stripe, as being biased, sacrilegious, or treasonous.
I wonder how a single nation, the third largest in the world, can be governed by people who hate government and whose most ardent supporters don’t seem to want to belong to a large, diverse community.
Anyone have any optimism to spare?
[composed and posted with ecto]