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In response to
"Not for very many people, no."
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Strongbad
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That may be part of it. The obvious argument is stuff like Vietnam and Watergate, but I don't see the people who get upset about government today
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Jan 18 '13, 06:29
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being the kind of people who wanted to impeach Nixon.
I think the bigger factors are to do with government imposing changes on how some people choose to live - through initiatives like integrated education, gun control, anti-discrimination laws, environmental laws, etc - or made a decision on morality that people disagree with, like abortion, tolerating homosexuality, etc
But also, America has always had a streak of "government is the problem" in a way that other countries haven't. Think of Germany after Word War 2. They clearly weren't worried about having a big government again, despite World War 2 and the death camps and the brainwashing. It was nationalism that was considered to be the big evil that allowed these terrible things to happen, not government.
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