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Seriously, only people permanently stuck in adolescence with bullshit Libertarian notions about government believe that you can BREAK government and things will turn out well.
Only a dumbfuck Randroid type (or maybe the random leftist veering on wrapping all the way around the horseshoe) thinks that burning it all down is going to lead to better things...it's easy if you are totally ignorant to think that "government doesn't do anything for ME" as an actual thing you believe.
This happens because people take completely for granted all of the things government quietly does for them.
It's kind of the same as "Why do we even have an IT department? Everything works, what are they even doing?"
Such an apt analogy - this actually happens all the time in corporations. IT tends to just get treated as a cost center, most especially if everything is running smoothly. Stupid people at companies will often just look at the price of that and think it's time to fuck with it...
It's almost the same thing with vaccines. A whole lot of dumbasses think vaccines "never did them no good", because vaccines are a victim of their own success, and most people alive today have not really seen how bad it can get without them [1].
Idiots can then try to pin the state of health we have, largely thanks to vaccines, on other things like septic systems, "eating healthy", etc...
[1] I've anecdotally noticed that for the most part, you didn't see older generations going for that anti-vax shit. It seems to have started with some (younger) boomers, a lot of Gen-Xers and on down. But again, that's because it's an out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of thing. Some of the older people (like Greatest Generation) saw how life can be incredibly cruel w/o vaccines...sadly, all that wisdom is dying out and our education system sucks, so this wisdom was not passed on to enough people. Critical thinking is probably as bad as ever, and we are probably on the verge of FAFO...
Toxins and crystals and essential oils, oh my!
"Haw haw!"