In response to @WinThePennant's question:
The reason “they are enlisting the help of their government” is that the government is seeing them, instead of the people, as their constituents.
https://twitter.com/WinThePennant/status/1089245862503550976
The reason “they are enlisting the help of their government” is that the government is seeing them, instead of the people, as their constituents.
That “government should stay out” turn-of-phrase sold by Reagan, who was Trump’s forefather, is good for only one group, the wealthy and influential who can BUY the government.
The people who get one vote every few years need government too, to advocate for them. It’s not small government or big government; it’s the right government. You make government smaller and smaller and say that it should.
Yet you stay out and let Amazon and AT&T and the rest of them become colossal. What gives? Do you believe in the natural benevolence of for profit corporations and the malevolence of governments?
Amazon is not going anywhere. It is more powerful and more permanent than any government that we have laws for. Presidents go to Google to pay respects. It used to be the other way around!
The little guy has only one recourse: A freely, justly elected, representative government. We ought to mistrust anyone who wants to weaken that sort of government in the face of massive corporations in the so-called free market. 
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