Virtually anything under the control of the government can be used by the government as a weapon against the people.
...and have you noticed the government has its hand in literally everything we touch...from the airplanes we travel in to the food we eat, the money we earn and send to them, the license for our car, our dog, our gun, our fishing license...we have educational loans, small business loans and home loans all underwritten by the government.
They monitor most everything we do, except for what’s important, like our borders and the freight that arrives from overseas.
“Virtually anything under the control of the government can be used by the government as a weapon against the people.”
Correction: Delete “can be used” - insert “will be used”
The Republican party is dying because they lied to us repeatedly.
And the worst lie of all (because it overturned an election) was the failure to abolish the Department of Education, AFTER WE GAVE THEM A MANDATE TO DO SO.
We gave them all the power in the world in 1994. They lied about who they were, and what they would do.
Now, they're about to pay the price.
"This is why one of the greatest faults of the Republican party has been the failure to return things like the school system back to the private sector.
Basically, there has been a willingness to keep the giant machine in place, and just try to add conservative tweaks. That does not work because the nature of the machine is inherently socially liberal. Also, the machine is designed to be a make work program for bureaucrats. So, to survive, the conservative movement must return things like the public school system back to the competitive free enterprise system, which streamlines and improves itself out of pure survival instinct.