"small government" fundamentally means "big industries".

When governing entities have limited money and power, they will need a lot of good will from the incumbents to have anything done at all.

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pxmpxm 8 months ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not so sure the thinly veilled preposition there ("big government" is the solution) actually holds on empirical basis - government-enterprise monoliths don't exactly have a great track record with these things.

	▲	makeitdouble 8 months ago \| parent [-]
		It's not a proposition. On an empirical basis, you'll find extreme examples of all situations, from full-on dictatures to company owned land masses. Whether it holds or not has to do with the specific country and its situation. In a very real way, ideologies don't feed people, and usually it will be the reality of the country that nurtures appropriate philosophies, not the other way round (e.g. Chinese "communism" wouldn't have happened anywhere else, and you can't apply it to other countries willy nilly either)

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didgeoridoo 8 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you under the impression that the USA has a small government?

	▲	makeitdouble 8 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Looking at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen... The USA is at 38%. That's pretty low compared to most EU countries (e.g. France or Italy are at 58%), even lower than Brazil or Japan. And Japan has no offensive military to throw money at.
	▲	BrainInAJar 8 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		in terms of things that the government provides to the public, absolutely. The US is incapable of doing anything other than through the military.