this obsession with government tyranny in the US is bonkers. Why is your default assumption that government will "go off the rails"?
Why is your starting point not the default for most reasonable people - that the government is literally people from that society trying to manage their own affairs and to help each other when possible?
Yeah I never understood the position of "Mind you, the government will go off the rails, elect me and I'll prove it to you!" and people who vote for that ...
> Why is your starting point not the default for most reasonable people - that the government is literally people from that society trying to manage their own affairs and to help each other when possible?
Because the government (at both state and federal levels) has been not this for several decades now. Legislative capture is wild stuff.
