YOU WANT BIG GOVERNMENT? THEN EXPLAIN THIS. =========================================== Published: March 23, 2025 Author: Daniel Conderman Context: Recovered Conderman.Group political commentary responding to a reported child-welfare failure in Waterbury, Connecticut Original URL: https://conderman.group/2025/03/democrats-left-you-want-big-government-then-explain-this/ Source cited by original post: http://cnn.com/2025/03/23/us/waterbury-connecticut-man-held-captive/index.html Waterbury, Connecticut. A deep-blue stronghold. Democrat-run. Progress-minded. Child-focused. Social-service stacked. So tell me: how the hell did a boy get locked in a house for 20 years and nobody did a damn thing? This is your idea of "a system that works"? Because what I see is a system that protects itself -- not children. A school called child services over 20 times. The agency says there is no record. You erased the evidence like it was an inconvenience, like that child's pain was a clerical error. Where were the watchdogs? Where were the caseworkers? Where were the visits? You fund entire departments with millions -- to do what? To forget? To vanish files? To walk away when it gets hard? You Democrats want to fight every attempt to shrink government, claiming the money is needed to help people. Help who, exactly? You scream that budget cuts hurt the vulnerable. You block every attempt at reform. You defend every agency like it is sacred. But what happens when your sacred cows are rotten and full of maggots? This is not a failure of funding. This is a failure of integrity. You had the money. You had the votes. You had the agencies. And still, a boy was tortured for two decades under your "compassionate leadership." What does a $100,000-a-year caseworker do if not save children? Why does a DCF office even exist if it cannot find a kid who was clearly in danger? How many people got raises, pensions, and promotions while that boy wasted away behind boarded-up windows? You do not hate waste. You protect it. You feed it. You give it a union. Hell, you build careers out of waste. And you know what is worse? This is not even waste anymore. This is cruelty with a paycheck. This is suffering-by-design. Paid. For. By. Us. If this is the best your bloated, blue machine can offer, then maybe you do not deserve a government at all. Because you do not govern. You harvest. You lecture about morality while defending agencies that let a child be slowly erased. So go ahead: cry about cuts. Scream about fascism. Yell "protect the vulnerable" from your comfortable city halls. Because from where I am standing, you had every tool, every dollar, and every opportunity to stop this. And you failed. Spectacularly. Tragically. Disgracefully. This is on you.