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[–] [email protected] 123 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yep:

“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.” — Grover Norquist

That was 25 years ago. It's always been their plan. They want to dismantle democracy and replace it with a corporatocracy, oligarchy, or similar authoritarian structure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I don't want to abolish government. I just want to have the ability to abolish the government on a whim. Whether the government just so happens to be abolished or not after that is up to the direction of the wind and whether the sun gets in my eyes."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No. They want to make it small enough to fit in a woman’s uterus because that’s all they give a shit about regulating