Lately I’ve been keeping a list of things to repair in the U.S.—if and when we get through the next 3.6 years: Not hard -Tariffs Medium hard -Corruption -Politicized law enforcement -Clean energy transition Very hard -Higher ed & scientific research -State capacity & expertise -Supreme Court - ThreadSky

zeitzoff.bsky.social • 32 days ago

Lately I’ve been keeping a list of things to repair in the U.S.—if and when we get through the next 3.6 years:

Not hard
-Tariffs

Medium hard
-Corruption
-Politicized law enforcement
-Clean energy transition

Very hard
-Higher ed & scientific research
-State capacity & expertise
-Supreme Court

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janet.bsky.social•32 days ago

Immigration! I think the last major reform was Reagan's amnesty in 1986?

zeitzoff.bsky.social•32 days ago

I’m a cautious optimist by nature, so I didn’t want to label the categories:

-Very hard

-Extremely hard, near impossible

-Will happen when the Sun swallows the Earth

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dwnwthtyrants.bsky.social•31 days ago

End Citizens United
Abolish ICE
BAN members of Congress from taking money from lobbyists

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•32 days ago

Strikes me as the loss of human capital will be the hardest to fix. No quick or easy solutions there.

I would add "addressing the inherent anti-democratic nature of the Senate and Electoral College" to the "very hard" list.

zeitzoff.bsky.social•32 days ago

Yeah, the U.S. institutions are at the root of a lot of this mess.

nymaggie01.bsky.social•31 days ago

Great list and assessment…

nigelburns.bsky.social•31 days ago

Brit here. One of the really really hard things following Brexit was trying to go back to trusting your fellow electorate. Still not happening. I think you will have the same issue.

kjephd.bsky.social•32 days ago

Very hard
-no usable mechanism to get rid of criminal or corrupt federal officials

lucasaurelius.bsky.social•31 days ago

Trump waltzes in and fires anyone he wants, the SCOTUS says ok, so long as it isn’t the Federal Reserve, yet it is supposed to be very hard to waltz in and fire all of his cronies? Please explain why the democrats have to abide by rules that MAGA ignores?

zeitzoff.bsky.social•32 days ago

I always thought it would be both funny and sad if USAID had done an anti-corruption field experiment in the U.S. https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/5-000-24-001-A-rev_0.pdf

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