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"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.

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

	▲	makeitdouble 3 hours 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 2 hours 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.