On Robert Reich's facebook page:

"SNIP..............

Conservative Republicans’ most powerful weapon is cynicism about government -- which they’ve been able to enlarge and spread simply by being incompetent, corrupt, bigoted, and dumb. The worse they get, the more I hear from people “nothing can get done,” “it’s useless to try,” “government is dysfunctional,” and “why should I get involved?” In other words, the lower they sink, the closer they come to their ultimate goal – making Americans so distrustful of government that we give up on it, and cede it to the moneyed interests (big corporations, Wall Street, Koch brothers and their billionaire friends) that would like nothing better than to have it all to themselves.

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Robert Reich, Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton... in his facebook page

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2yb86s/conservative_republicans_most_powerful_weapon_is/