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The REAL reason Trump is dismantling the government [1]
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Date: 2025-02-26
Donald Trump and his puppet Elon Musk have declared total war on the government.
They've indiscriminately fired government workers; made false claims of "waste, fraud, and abuse"; and dismantled numerous government agencies.
But why? Why are they doing it?
Are they just evil? Maybe. Personal feelings and ideology could be a part of this siege on the government. But there is a far more sinister cause for this chaos.
Donald Trump and company are conducting a coordinated, strategic attack on the government to convince the American people that the government is fundamentally incapable of doing anything good for the American people.
And why is that? Because the government is a threat to the people who own this country: billionaires, venture capitalists, CEOs, and so forth. The government holds these people accountable and is therefore a threat to the owners' ultimate goal: higher profits and continued political control of the country.
The government also does good work for no profit, fostering a sense that "we're in this together". This is dangerous to the owners. They want common people to remain divided by seeing each other as competition. They want people to worship personal success above all else, because that mindset legitimizes billionaire rule.
The owners also want to eliminate the civil service. This is a group of workers that enjoys greater wages and benefits, greater racial diversity in hiring, and far higher rates of unionization and thus autonomy in their workplace than in the private sector.
So the owner class has merged with the Republican Party to destroy the government to achieve unrestricted economic control of the country, destroy a sense of togetherness between workers, and turn federal employees into a low paid and controllable pool of workers.
Now you are cognizant of the sinister reason behind it all.
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