Larry Elder said in this video, said that the civil rights movement was (in some respects) a mistake. The civil rights movement was never a mistake: it was a scam! It was one of the clearest examples of the Modus Operandi of the Left: misdirect everyone into thinking that you are doing something noble, and put your alleged good deed forever in the spotlight (with the help of your media proxies and others). As the above go on, siphon some of the tax payer money that underwrites the program, into your donors' and your own pockets, and create a state of dependency, where the beneficiaries of the government program depend on you for their welfare, and keep voting for you, to ensure that the program continues. Do people think that the Left seriously do not realize that what is holding back much of the Black community, is fatherlessness? That is why they have never passed policies that remedy the situation. They are milking the misery of Black Americans for political gain: having an underclass that can never rise up because of the problem of fatherlessness, while contending their lack of progress, has always been due to systemic racism. It is the perfect scam!

Government programs by Democrats aren't primarily to help people out: they are there primarily to breed government dependency by the US population, and to give Democrat politicians wealth and power. The Democrats copied what charities used to do a great deal, and used that as a pretext to grow the government.

Those who say that a government program can never be eliminated are wrong. All you have to do is have the government contract out the work to private companies, or have the government form an ecosystem of private actors, who compete to carry out the function of the government program. For example, replace our current public education system with competing private learning institutions, and let government financial support follow the kids, rather than the schools. Sell off VA properties, and turn the VA into an insurance company for veterans. You will decrease the size of government, improve services for veterans on a permanent basis, because you will increase competition among the services veterans use, and you will save money. Social Security, Medicare, etc. can all be privatized to allow people to continue enjoying the benefits of these government programs, while making these social programs more efficient, and less prone to insolvency.

The Democrat party is a phony party through and through with its government programs. Conservatives however do not have to embrace Democrat government expansionism in order to be popular with voters. Conservatives can shrink the size government, while maintaining government programs - in private forms.