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In reply to the discussion: Why do people hate the government so much? [View all]moondust
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Hard core capitalists have been sounding the alarm about "big gubment" for a century since they found out that after the Russian revolution the commies nationalized private property. Then it spread to China. In the 60s there was the fear of the "domino effect" in Vietnam. Today I suspect it's largely greedy profiteers who want to basically do the opposite of what the commies did; i.e. they want to privatize government assets so they can make a ton of money off them.
2018: The Trump Administration Is Selling Your Public Lands on the Internet
2020: Public Citizen Report: Trumps Land Privatization Was Decades in the Making By Right-Wing Groups, Corporations
ETA: I don't know if it has been mentioned that probably significant numbers of children in former Confederate states were raised to hate the damn "union" government that waged the "war of northern aggression" on them. Some of that hate likely endures to this day.
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