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Seriously, what’s the point of government if not to HELP US. We didn’t invent government to make our lives more difficult. We invented it to keep our shit together. For us. As a property of its existence.

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Only if you hold them accountable for what they do.

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Seriously, what’s the point of government if not to HELP US.

We would get surprisingly far if we got to a place where the government didn’t actively hinder us.

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Hinder us how?

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Off the top of my head:

  • removing school lunch programs
  • removing women’s reproductive rights
  • dragging feet on legalizing marijuana
  • gerrymandering certain states/districts to keep one party in power
  • politicians being bought by the highest corporate bidder

Those are all pretty big ways in which the government hinders the population at large.

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…of, by and for The People. Greatest work of fiction ever written.

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Eh, we DIDN’T invent government. Government invented itself to control and exploit us. They do so to the degree of our tolerance levels and the level to which we are manipulated.

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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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I don’t think quoting a bunch of slave-owners and misogynists who did none of all that is proving the point you’re trying to make.

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no, we did invent the government, or do you really think that for however bad this is, the literal warlord nobility that predates it was Superior?

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