American right wing subversion of democracy

Anybody with a serious interest in protecting America's democratic institutions should pay heed to this article by a former Republican staffer who left his party in disgust. It paints a truly terrifying picture of where we are headed.

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

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See, the article makes a point of this but you probably tl;dr'd. It's a positive feedback loop. First you make government as impotent and inefficient as possible. Then when government can't get anything done, say that government is bad, then use that as an excuse to make it even weaker.

When you're actively subverting government, and using the results of that subversion to say "nothing will be done through the system", it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's easy to just abandon something altogether, like you're advocating, rather than working to fix it. There are too many forces at work which absolutely fear the prospect of an efficient government working for the public good, and they manipulate people like you into believing it's impossible.