I think a potential lesson that will be taken from this era is if a new administration can top to bottom stack the federal bureaucracy with political lackeys and pay almost no price for it from the electorate, then ok fine then maybe President Beshear’s transition team can prepare a similar purge - ThreadSky

swin24.bsky.social • 27 days ago

I think a potential lesson that will be taken from this era is if a new administration can top to bottom stack the federal bureaucracy with political lackeys and pay almost no price for it from the electorate, then ok fine then maybe President Beshear’s transition team can prepare a similar purge

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buttfayce.bsky.social•27 days ago

can prepare? should prepare.

girlfriend.bsky.social•27 days ago

If that's what you want then you'll have to have a political project that's more than wish casting. Replace them with who? Who is running the liberal project 2029 to build that groundwork?

erichdelang.bsky.social•27 days ago

This needs to be the threat. Two ways of presenting it:

1. If there’s never going to be an election again, well, that’s its own discussion.

2. But if there is, Dems will eventually win, and when they do we understand that the President controls the power of the purse and we gonna have some fun!

sorcafa.bsky.social•27 days ago

the democrats dont want power and if they had it they wouldnt do anything good with it. have you been living under a rock for the past like 40 years or what

kernunno.bsky.social•27 days ago

Okay but this is a crazy thing to say. You know the Democrats are liberals, right. They aren't going to do that. Ideologically, they are committed to doing the exact opposite of that.

If you want to purge the conservatives from the government you will need to elect communists.

karlmollusk.bsky.social•27 days ago

The United States will continue to fall back into this over and over and over again due to the inherent contradictions of capitalism out of control. It’s like a zombie, shambling along, clacking its jaws in hunger, rotting away with every step. Eventually it’s just a mouth with nothing to digest.

kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social•27 days ago

Well if federal elections happen again, and Dems win, there is no way these MAGA people can stay in their positions after being hired/retained solely because of their partisan loyalty to Trump.

pepe-mccormack.bsky.social•27 days ago

If they are all political appointees they would be subject to dismissal when a new administration comes in. That means that given there will be no job security for federal workers they will be more likely to rent instead of buying a home, driving rents up for all of DC and other gov centers

pepe-mccormack.bsky.social•27 days ago

Additionally, given a choice to work on a stable job (academia, private business) or government; why would competent people choose to work for US?

mrsdianek.bsky.social•27 days ago

You mean President Pete?

ebenezer-drumlin.bsky.social•27 days ago

Not saying that they shouldn't try to do it, but if they do, the media will absolutely lose its mind and talk about nothing else 24/7 until 80% of America thinks the Dems are doing something evil and unprecedented.

goaskalis.bsky.social•27 days ago

Democrats should absolutely do the same things

bamamontana.bsky.social•27 days ago

This is what concerns me - are these political hires going to be put out as unceremoniously as their forbears next time, or will it be like the Biden administration where what is done will not be undone because decorum and polling that shows that the Overton window has moved?

iamatigergirl.bsky.social•27 days ago

Gonna need someone with more cajones than Beshear to do this on the Dem side. Gavin, maybe?

kernunno.bsky.social•27 days ago

The guy who helped kill all of those homeless people? No, he isn't going to purge the conservatives.

clivingsbkk.bsky.social•27 days ago

Beshear or Pritzker?

fergusmcdingus.bsky.social•27 days ago

Except this crop of chuds are going to naturally take it the next step and never allow an opposition party in power again. The logic naturally flows

joeyjojo-shabadoo.bsky.social•27 days ago

It's only a question of how long he can get away with it. It's inevitable that the purge will make every American's life noticably, appreciably worse. Unfortunately he'll probably get away with it until everyone's life is miserable enough to convince Republicans to do something

jessadee.bsky.social•27 days ago

First who would agree to join the federal service on these terms, second the democrats don’t have the steel spine or administrative heft to coordinate & implement this kind of move

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