Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives erupted as Republicans gaveled into recess on Tuesday despite a looming government shutdown.According to CBS, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) was seeking unanimous consent to pass a Democratic resolution that would have prevented the shutdown. However...
  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

    https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

    They are ideologically opposed to the government doing basically anything other than police and military duties, and having the bare minimum legal system required to facilitate criminal convictions for the poor, and the contract emforcement of private business.

    Basically, they want the level of government that exists in Night City from Cyberpunk 2077, but probably without mass transit or even public roads.

    This is what Rush Limbaugh’s ditto hesds have been told they want for about 40 years, and now they are just doing it.

    You can prosecute people for thought crimes snd not being the right sexuality or religion or skin color with this, so, that’s all good with them.