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In the us it's a pretty standard strategy for the right wing to underfund or sabotage a program, say government doesn't work, and then try to privatize it.
It's not "the right-wing," it's the Parties of Capital. Find a government service that turns a profit and people like. Whine about "the deficit," make "hard-choices," and underfund it while giving more and more money to your donor's in the form of carve-outs. Eventually the service starts to suck and people start to hate it, now you can swoop in and privatize it.
A pro-tip to detect this behavior is to see who is talking about the deficit, when that talk comes up it means there are services they want to cut.