We elect representatives to lead us through trying times, right? To make policy decisions based on mountains more information than we ordinary folks have, yes? Why not have them run everything? Wouldn’t they be better at it than us uninformed simpletons?
Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we had only one organization responsible for all important decisions? Let’s have the feds determine how to educate our kids — oh that’s right, they already do. We could have the feds tell us how to handle our elder care and set up restrictions on who can access the estate and how — oh, wait, they already do. Well the feds should certainly step up and tell us how to manage our own health care and diet and exercise… um, they do.
But that’s only part-way, isn’t it?
Why leave any field open for insights and input and collaboration and production from all quarters, when instead we can restrict the decisions and activitiy to just one exclusive team? Let’s have the feds do it all. We’ll all sit back in our lawn chairs, caching stimulus checks while prices go through the roof, which our kids and grandkids will have to deal with later. Nobody will produce anything, but everyone will feel good while it lasts. It’s a great plan, and is NOT a short term fix at all; this is a well-considered approach with an eye on the future, having nothing to do with buying votes. Nothing at all.
Land of the convenient, home of the comfortable.