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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd seriously like to understand the end game to all of this "dismantle the government" ideology that started in earnest with Reagan in the post-Nixon years and has now reached it's logical zenith under Trump.

What will happen when tax revenues are fraction of what we need to maintain the military, infrastructure, and the Boomers begin dying in poverty in mass due to the dismantling of Social Security & Medicare?

I'd love to understand what Republicans want our country to look like once they enact all these policies. What is your vision? Is the point to weaken our country to the point that Constitutional changes are rammed through that fundamentally end "one person, one vote" electoral politics? Perhaps the installation of some sort of hereditary-based political structure?

Will we be able to defend ourselves from foreign invaders with a society that is physically unhealthy/aging, in prison, and with crumbling infrastructure?

I feel like a lot of my Republican friends and Trump can say what they want to do to dismantle government....but have they contemplated what will exist in the aftermath?
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1.  Anyone who already works in government knows that at least 50% of your colleagues are deadwood.  Maybe you are deadwood yourself.  So not "dismantle government" but get rid of deadwood.  Improve efficiency.  Justify your existence.  (Like with the DOE.)  Scary, right, I know?

2.  Trump wants a trillion dollar infrastructure project.  But maybe to pay for it, he wants to get rid of your do-nothing job.  Too bad, so sad.

3.  Social Security and Medicare won't be dismantled.  But it has to be fixed.  Democrats haven't offered a viable plan.  Waiting 21 years until the surplus is used up is stupid.  So reform will get done, but liberals won't have a seat at the table.  Too bad again.

4.  Tax revenues won't go down, they'll go up as the economy expands, perhaps at a somewhat slower pace, perhaps not.  Another ridiculous leftist straw man.  But hopefully the taxes will be used a little more wisely.  It doesn't even have to be used vastly more wisely.  5% more efficient use of tax revenues, overall, would be a huge benefit to the economy.

5.  Republicans don't want "the country" to look like anything.  They want you to have the freedom to live your life the way you see fit within very wide parameters.  But of course, liberals don't like that, because it means they have to leave other people alone to choose how to live their own lives, too.   Only leftists have a grand socialist organizing agenda for how the "country" should "look."  (Like Seattle, I guess.  Or maybe Austin.)

6. Hereditary based political structure?

7.  One person, one vote?  You mean you're OK with a conservative Supreme Court that doesn't constantly overrule legislation approved by the  majority of the population because they think they know best?

8.  Now you're worried about foreign invaders?  But not about Islamic terrorism? Not about illegal immigration?

9.  Crumbling infrastructure...well Trump's got that covered, if the liberals don't block him.  A trillion dollars should be enough to get the ball rolling.

10.  Getting rid of useless government employees who perform no useful function--and there are lots of them--isn't dismantling government.  It's making government better.  Sorry if you're one of those employees honey.[/quote]

It's a little early to be drinking sterno.[/quote]

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