[roenxi]

The best disinfectant doesn't kill everything. Nobody's ever managed to assemble a government that doesn't do awful things out in the open.

One of my complaints about the Trump era is people are correctly identifying a bunch of problems with how the US government operates but for some reason they're only a problem when Trump does them instead of being a more general concern even if other people are involved.

Eg, Trump is almost certainly spying on his political opponents. Using infrastructure built by Bush/Obama/Trump/Biden that everyone who took notice at the time pointed out would be used by people to spy on political opponents. This isn't a Trump problem. It is people assuming the government is always on their side despite copious quantities of evidence otherwise and regular elections.

[KingMob]

I'd be pretty likely to agree with you, but I have you tagged as "pro-Musk". If you think an unelected oligarch wrecking everything with his hand-picked kids is an improvement over government, I dunno what to tell you.

I loathe government, but I loathe monarchs more.