It's perfectly possible to improve, say, environmental protection without any drone programs. Most of Europe does so, for example.
So it's just mindless cynicism to argue "more government" / "no less government" / blablabla.
The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling as an argument not against the Military-Industrial-Complex but, yet again, to diminish policies that might actually help people, is part and parcel of exactly the approach that ends with dead civilians domestically and abroad.
So it's just mindless cynicism to argue "more government" / "no less government" / blablabla.
The specific American infatuation with anything that kills is, well, specific. Using all that wasteful killing/incarcerating/surveilling as an argument not against the Military-Industrial-Complex but, yet again, to diminish policies that might actually help people, is part and parcel of exactly the approach that ends with dead civilians domestically and abroad.