Why so many people who need the government hate it

A good bureaucracy is run by technocrats and managed through reforms, and neither of those are good at selling ideas which is the currency in politics.

Nobody likes being told what’s best for you, and that’s basically what a functional bureaucracy does. But it gets worse, because you mainly come into contact with it when you’re a client and since the state takes accountability rather serious when it comes to welfare, it requires things of you, so you feel like it’s a struggle. Probably an uphill struggle since you’re at your lowest and bureaucrats are typically at a higher social level than you.

Populism and reactivism is the opposite, it offers very few realistic solutions, but it does sell you ideas. More than that though, it idolizes your struggle.

So you get fooled, like people have been throughout the ages, and it’ll be interesting if we ever come up with a solution that also allows for peace and individual freedom for more than 80 years.

Maybe we will. In Germany the Green Party has just finished its summer tour through hardcore AfD country, and they’ve converted a lot of down throdden citizens, simply by talking to them.

>Yeah, this is quite frustrating. I spent a lot of time looking at the state of Kentucky to try to make sense of this. Kentucky is a very poor state. And when you look at congressional districts there, you find a bunch of them where the average person gets more than 30 or 40 or 50 percent of their income from federal social benefits.

>Yet those same districts are electing very conservative members of Congress who promise to introduce work requirements for food stamps and repeal the Affordable Care Act and so forth. It’s really puzzling.

It seems likely that these two things would be correlated. If you have a high number of people receiving benefits in a district, those that are not receiving those benefits may be more aware of the benefits and be more likely to have a stronger opinion on the issue than someone living in a district where there are not many people receiving such benefits.