[IfOnlyYouKnew]

It's perfectly possible to improve, say, environmental protection without any drone programs. Most of Europe does so, for example.

So it's just mindless cynicism to argue "more government" / "no less government" / blablabla.

The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling as an argument not against the Military-Industrial-Complex but, yet again, to diminish policies that might actually help people, is part and parcel of exactly the approach that ends with dead civilians domestically and abroad.

[ransom1538]

"The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling"

America is militarized due to 20th century European "killing/incarcerating/surveilling." Europe perfected these methods.