By Rowan Wolf

There is a long-running argument that government should be run like a business, and/or a businessman would be a better President than a politician. This is based upon the (faulty) belief that business is more “efficient” than the government (or public servants). This is also what at least 50 years of efforts by Republicans (and the forces driving them) to undermine faith in all levels of government, the public sector, and voting. The goal has been to disenfranchise the public as the fewer people participating, the smaller the block they must coordinate in order to gain power and keep it. But motivation for promoting the belief in the efficacy of “business” and the “wisdom” of the leaders thereof, is not the primary issue here. My focus is to talk about the peculiarities of the public sector and government, and the lies promoting the belief in business.

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