Government is not bad.

Repeat that to yourself over and over. Say it out loud. Stand in front of the mirror and watch yourself say it until you believe it.

Because it’s true, and it’s way, way past time that people stop holding the thoroughly ignorant, self-harming belief that government, as a whole, is bad. Or wasteful. Or intrusive. Or incompetent.

Oh, to be certain, there are portions of government that are all of those things. But they exist at the micro level. Down where we’re talking about mismanaged departments within certain agencies or rude employees or incompetent agents or misguided policies.

Unfortunately, though, because we all deal with government on a near-daily basis, in one form or another, and because government stretches to all corners of life, it is somewhat common

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