• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    That’s just a symptom of the actual greatest scam: making people think the government should be a “them” instead of an “us.”

    Its responsibilities are those of the citizens. That’s why the government exists: to regulate, pay for, and administrate those responsibilities.

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      10 hours ago

      That’s why they exist in theory. In practice they serve a social class that’s very much not “us” except for lip service