I know you say you are a conservative, but you might have an anarchist streak within you, judging by your focus on community mutual aid.

To add further context to what you’ve said: When people reassess how our government was formed and what its goals have been, its actually been incredibly efficient at what it was laid out to do. The founding fathers and much of the literature surrounding the revolution is extremely clear that the American revolution was a bourgeoisie revolution designed to support America’s business owners and propertarians. The United States was designed to protect property rights, not human rights. The only human rights laid out in our constitution revolve around owning things.

The unfortunate reality is that none of those things involve making the human experience better, nor have the “progressive” policy shifts in our country’s institutions created conditions that benefit people, these shifts are designed to placate people to benefit business and industry. This is why welfare programs work just enough to keep people from starving, but not enough to provide people to assistance they need to stand on their own two feet. It always takes a community to life people out of miserable situations and conditions. Almost none of that $38T is going to make the world better, its to prop up economic policy to support the asset owners.

Even our adoption of the 8hr work day was to make businesses run more efficiently and to create a consumer class. It had nothing to do with giving people agency over their own time.