The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries…
…Across the branches of government, the services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism – are being undermined, understaffed or trashed. A different kind of protection that consists of public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights and the rule of law is also under attack. The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money…
…It’s the antidemocratic weaknesses in our system that created the vulnerabilities that let this happen…
Yes, this is all happening as planned, by the tech oligarchs, who … essentially have successfully turned the country into an outright corporatocracy.
The government still technically exists, but it is nearly totally directed by capitalists, who themselves are essentially just playing out ego fantasy power trip battles as to who can be the best John Galt.
This is the ideal ‘libertarian’ society, realized; techno-feudalism.
No, Trump is destroying the USA.
Trump and his cabal of like-minded minions.
Good, the US needs a reckoning.
Optimistic of you to think the reckoning it gets will be the one it needs. Theres no mistake the US won’t make again once someone thinks they can make money from it. If capitalism still stands nothing will fundamentally change. Maybe it buys another two or three election cycles.
I hope we get some cool countries out of this balkanization at least. Fingers crossed for Cascadia!
Author can’t accept this is exactly what maga voted for. The republican base, against their own interests, have wanted to strangle every facet of the federal gov for as long as I’ve been alive. They just finally got the supermajority and a leader both dumb and lacking empathy enough to make it happen.
freedom has slowly beaten democracy down
going to take something special to repair the institution
I agree. The Republican goal has been to dismantle the government for decades. Maga just pushed it over the line to actually happen.
There’s a lot gone already.
They’ll cry later when they realize they broke what they will want later but destroyed.
MAGA: “destroy the government!” Also MAGA: “The government isn’t paying my social security and I can’t afford my medications!”
Expect a tidal wave of “I can’t believe the Democrats did this to me” as that unfolds.
Nah, they’ll still blame immigrants, transgender athletes and blue haired woke snowflakes until they die.
They’re toddlers
Toddlers are usually quick learners.
& innocents
Yanks certainly aren’t.
I don’t think you understand what Yanks means
In my part of the world, it means “Americans”
But they don’t have a supermajority, they’re short 14 seats in the Senate for that.
You are describing Libertarians. Yes, that was a sect of the Republican cult in the past, but now they are mostly fascist. Government social spending is bad, but they want military and law enforcement granted MORE power. They want people they don’t like to suffer and or die. Both over seas and domestically. Those are the morons. The rich want protection of their wealth and free reign over basically everything.
I’ll be blunt, I’ve never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they’ll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don’t really have anything left.
I used to be a Libertarian. The first time I voted, I voted Libertarian down the line. I did grow up a Republican since I am a white male from a middle class background and it’s traditional for white males to be Republican in this country. However, like you said, I liked smoking weed and drinking, plus I hated cops and came to view war as a tremendous waste of money, resources and human life. My Republican upbringing had me believing that taxes were strangling the economy as well. So I figured gubmint bad. Republicans may say that too, but they love war and hate human rights when applied to people they don’t like. They want a “strong” government to hold down undesirables and conquer and control the rest of the world. Fascists. That is the difference. I’m very liberal now. I have lived through a lot of things in the real world and now realize that those veiwpoints are unrealistic and awful respectively.
Onto the “No shit, really?” pile.
I mean im keeping up with what gets dribbled out. I mean I don’t have a doc but I can’t see how people cannot see it who live here. About six months in you know you could no longer trust any data coming from the fed. Heck the actual fed the body had to give data they are basing their things are on because what was coming out of the fed the government where so off.
fed up with the current fake GOP fed
Sometimes you just need to burn the forrest down… (batman)
sometimes the forest burns you down
Sometimes the forest burns down and all the trees fall, but nobody is around to hear it.
