this is btw not just a logical fallacy. this is a moral catastrophe because it essentially encourages people to say "so you're just trying to screw me over" when the Government offers to help them in any capacity and before you know it they vote for Ronald Reagan.

Ceasing to believe in state capacity is bad, actually.

I think this circular logic is why I find myself less and less able to buy wholesale into left-anarchism (or at least not the extremely online version of it) writing off all beneficial aspects of government is how we get austerity, and that’s very much a right-wing game we shouldn’t be playing into