Attack on voting

[Spongebob]

I really don't understand people who claim that both parties are the same. There are literally scores of reasons why this is not true and I think the real problem here is that people who like to rant about this are 1) largely ignorant of the minutiae of government policies and 2) brain washed to believe that both parties are nothing but a giant conspiracy to enslave people or some other ridiculous notion. What is abundantly true is that the federal government is a megalithic bureaucracy and that it's insanely expensive and probably insanely inefficient. We've all heard too many stories about (insert favorite agency) that wasted 100's of millions of dollars while the service it was supposed to provide was horrible. Yeah, I get it, that sucks, but it isn't about one or the other party; it's about the size and scope of the government. When something gets that big it gets really difficult to manage, no matter who is running it.

So, just privatize, it the usual GOP retort. In some cases that's a good solution, but its rarely a panacea. For just about every privatized segment that was successful, there's one that was a disaster. Some of these eventually recover, but lets just stop with the outrageous praise for privatization; it's ok at best, a horrible disaster at worst, and somebody always gets rich because of it. The specific issues we have to deal with are unique to our times, but in every past large kingdom or empire, you can find examples of the same type of problems we experience, meaning governing a massive empire is never easy and often is a root cause of the collapse of said empire.