“Party of small government” was always marketing rather than reality.
The Republican party was never about smaller government.
You are a fool if you believe that.
Of course they are for a smaller government, just not in the way you think.
Smaller role in regulations and taxing. Reduced federal government size. Elimination of welfare.
Bigger role in defense and social control. These are excluded in the mind of Republicans so they don’t count.
Yup.
Every time in my life I’ve seen conservatives gain power, they’ve attempted to assert more control over others.
It was always ‘small government for thee, big government for me’. There was never a moment when the republican party was unified in being small government for everyone. It was always ‘small government’ when regulation was bad for them, or they were in favor of government intervention when they needed a bail-out or some regulations passed to help them capture upstart market
When Republicans didn’t have the majority they believed in “small govt state rights” so they could do whatever they want in their red bubbles. Now that they hold all the cards, their pro government so they can force their ways in blue bubbles. Not the best way of articulating my point but that’s my thoughts on when they switched. Next time we have a blue majority, they will be pro small govt and anti fed again. Always been this way pretty much on both sides of the aisle.
It was ALWAYS just virtue-signalling. All of it. They were never the party of small government, they just like to say they are and they even had you fooled.
They never were, you just fell for their propaganda.
Republicans have done nothing but cyclically crash the economy for my entire life.
let’s not be too negative. they have also made themselves and their donors orders of magnitude wealthier by doing so.
Because it was all bullshit.
Republicans only want small government when the government is stopping white collar crime.
Republicans are only fiscally conservative when they are not in the white-house.
The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government
Really? When? Because all I ever heard was empty rhetoric when they weren’t in power.
That was always a lie, just like the rest of their platform. You’re just becoming aware of the reality, now.
It was a tagline. It never meant anything, as evidenced by the rejection of every possible explanation or implementation.
They also claimed to be for small business. But their concept of small business was inheritance class, angel investors, tech start ups and using family money as a launch vehicle. They don’t consider entrepreneurs, career professionals or family run brick and mortar operations within their equations when they say “we need to help small business”. Right wingers concerns stop at ensuring tax cuts for ownership, inheritance and wealth, not for incentivising business risk taking, producitivity and market excellence.
“Small government” only ever meant corporate deregulation—in all other respects they were already above the law.
They have always been fascists, authoritarians. Nothing they say or have ever said is to be taken as in good faith. They’ve always changed “the rules” to suit their policies, and the democrats pretend that they have to play by “the rules” no matter if they’ve been engineered to castrate them. Government is theatre intended to distract us from realizing that we are all in this together. Everything is a distraction. Celebrity idolatry, television and movies, sports, it’s all designed to keep our minds busy and occupied so that we don’t recognize that the systems of control of our society can be changed.
Party > Country
Bigotry > Conservative “Values”
Propaganda > Facts
It was always a lie. What they mean to say is that they won’t pass laws that create taxes or put in place systems that protect people from capitalists. That’s it. Other than that, they are happy to put all the money into war and the police.
If you find a chart of their public debt, look what how it did for each president. Apparently, you will be surprised.
