sleepfreeparent<p>Why is DOGE supposedly about "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/efficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>efficiency</span></a>" in the first place?<br>Why is the only rebuke from much of the press just chortling comments on how Musk is reducing government efficiency rather than increasing it?<br>What does it mean for a government to be efficient?</p><p>Efficient at doing what? What is the actual purpose of government?</p><p>On a good day, the purpose of the US government is to shepherd the extraction of wealth from all other classes up to the ruling class, and to hide that behind a facade of democracy. It's very efficient at that, and woefully inefficient at serving any other purpose. The people searching for a return to normalcy are trying to return to this. Polite and civil, but ultimately ruthless resource extraction.</p><p>But when you look at what the fascists are cutting and what they're keeping, you'll see what they think the purpose of government is to be. Enforcement against the poor and against immigrants is ratcheted up to putting open cruelty on full display, enforcement against the ruling class and their allies is completely disbanded, and anything not directly supporting the fascist mission is being pared to the bone or abolished. That facade is being torn down, and it is clear that the sole purpose of their government is your oppression.</p>