Thinking about
IMAX fiasco, where anti-evolution Neanderthals stopped the distribution of a volcano documentary, I realized what is at the core of conservative thinking.
Conservatives are dismantling and consuming the infrastructure of a modern society.
The public does not notice because everything seems fine in the short term.
They are eating our seed corn.
The hunger goes away, but come planting time, you starve.
Look at the US Military, where they are taking dedicated training units and putting them in combat.
Look at the rising debt, the decaying streets, sewers, and bridges.
Look at the cost of advanced education.
Graduates of modest means are being forced into peonage.
But for FDR's new deal and LBJ's Great Society, we would look like Brazil.
What happens when Social Security and free public education go away?
When private roads, run by political cronies, become the rule of the day?
Not only that, they are consciously doing this.
That's what it means when they want to "shrink the government down to the size that it could be drowned in a bathtub".