A right-wing strategy to crush people's spirit: say government can't do anything good, paralyze government so it really can't, then convince people to give up on trying.

The US government has done great things: for example, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, the Endangered Species Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Voting Rights Act, and many more.

What's broken is not the government itself, but rather our political system, and the fault is that people give credence to what the right wing says. That's because they've found ways to buy officials and the media with plutocrats' money.