When big things need doing it can take a lot to get it done properly. Getting it done well- efficiently, effectively, optimally- is more important than obsessing over how many helpers it takes. Demonizing government- and the people trying to make it work- doesn’t usually lead to a better job being done. It just makes it harder.

being against “big government” is meaningless. oppose “govt that fails” or “govt that supports [name your poison]“. that’s meaningful. small govt can be corrupt, stupid, interfering, etc – ask anyone who lives in a small town or county run by interfering jackasses. size does not determine the impact or nature of govt; people do. “big” govt protects the entire nation from foreign enemies, lawless polluters and gangster corporate thieves (well, it should). small govt may sound nice, but can it ran a nation effectively?

further, it’s pointless to be against something unless you are for something better. you may think govt is the enemy, but we live in a representative democracy. that means you, as a citizen, are responsible for how govt does or does not function. not the folks who get elected; the buck stops with you. blaming “big govt” is another abdication of responsibility unless you are actively involved in improving that govt (and not just protesting and blaming).

to quote Jefferson Smith of the Bus Project: Not bigger govt, not smaller govt, but better govt. Not left, not right, but forward.