And the best way anyone has come up with for letting people live their lives is to set the system against itself in perpetuity, lest it become so enamored of its own existence that it comes to believe itself more important than the people.

The really sad part is this is only common for some nations. Many people that I talk to outside the Anglo-sphere (English speaking nations) are surprised at how common the belief is that government cannot help people. As a friend once asked, “It’s your government. If it doesn’t work for you why aren’t you fixing it?”

More nuance than you normally see in these kinds of screenshots

That’s a long definition for fascism, my friend.