With the cabal of pedophiles ordering fascist paramilitaries to abduct five year olds off the streets and sending people to secret torture dungeons, while spending as much on the military as the next nine countries combined and explicitly saying that they can and will take whatever territory they feel like, it makes me think that maybe expanding US influence around the globe is a bad thing, and that having some countries willing to act as a counterbalance to that otherwise unstoppable force is a good thing, even if those countries are far from perfect.
In the past I’ve been criticized for “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” and that sort of thing. How much more fascist does the US has to get before, “Who could stop the US if it went full Hitler?” starts being a valid concern?
The US Federal Government, and government in general, is a huge set of institutions, governing everything from food production, bank regulation, environmental regulation, the military, disease control, education, and of course, immigration.
Evil people in office make the government do bad things, but at the same time, the good stuff like the regulating the environment, pollution, basic food quality, national parks, freeway design and repair, social security, weather forecasts, etc. tends to be taken for granted.
So when you say you hate the government, try to be more specific, and don’t forget the anonymous federal and other government employees working hard on the other stuff that helps your quality of life.