&gt;&quot;Starve-the-beast&quot; neocon tactics taken to a whole new level.<p>I&#x27;m not sure you know what a &quot;neocon&quot; is. Neocons derived from Trotskyism and are found in both major U.S. political parties. Neoconservatism has done more to expand government than perhaps any other ideology present in American politics.<p>&gt;actively sabotaging the activities of government, and then using the results of their very own actions to convince the electorate that government doesn&#x27;t work and cannot represent them, despite the fact that they got themselves elected into the very system they claim to despise.<p>Ironically that strategy sounds a lot like a strategy that&#x27;s been deployed by progressives. If you look at some of the most heavily regulated sectors of the economy--healthcare, banking, housing, wall street, etc--those are the same areas which progressives hold up as free market failures.