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Originally Posted by weeeez
I have no idea the point your trying to make.
That a "fully powered" (voted by parliament and with powers to deal with more than strictly only current affairs) government is less useful and less necessary than people think it is, given countries can work without one, as proven by France right now and by many other european countries many times.
The Netherlands has been without a (fully powered) government for more than 150 days this year. They voted november 22 2023, a very hung parliament came out of that vote, parties discussed coalitions for months, new government was sworn in July of this year.
Belgian once stayed 652 days without a government. And that included the first waves of covid in 2020
So the point is, we have proof that there is too much state, given when it's powers get vastly reduced (by lack of political agreement) life continues as normal for people. The optimal amount of state in society of course being, the absolute minimum required to run society smoothly.