Welcome to MAGA. There are many Berners I know, good people.

What I never understood was how giving the government more power was supposed to give the people more power? That part did not compute for me. My own understanding is that government makes as many problems (or more) than it solves because it’s run by biased-at-best, corrupt-at-worst humans (just like business).

I like the Judeo-Christian take on society: decentralize power all the way down to the level of the individual. Individual freedom AND individual responsibility for one’s choices. I take that to mean power to the people, plain and simple.

It’s not a perfect system - but the collective choice of the people is correct more often than any ‘government official’.