“There’s too little friction right now between Trump’s impulses & his administration’s actions.”
This reflects a broader socio-cultural trend which sees frictionlessness/efficiency as the path to social & technological rapture. Blockchain, crypto, AI all remove the messiness of humanity & consent.
I want to reiterate—you nailed it.
Side note: if anyone doubts the problem with $ in politics, think about what it means when Elon Musk or Nicole Shanahan threaten to fund a primary challenge to anyone who votes against confirmation of a cabinet member.
yeah, they will have to have the guts to face that challenge. and these career folks that have been in there a while, they won't do it lightly. it might get very bad here soon.
A supine Republican Congress serving only the ambition of the president. A power hungry president, checked only by the courts. This is a sign of the system failing.
The continual drip drip of criticism of the federal government by you all gave them ammunition. You all need to own that. Pahlka’s US Signal Service turned out to be an ideal Trojan Horse. And now we are all NPC in Musk’s game. Wait till he builds an AI algorithm based on the data he is stealing.
It's not the parties that are strong, what is strong - as Ezra describes - is Musk's capacity to use $$$ to *enforce* loyalty and prevent independence by a very gerrymandered GOP Congress
The poisonous fruit of the union of Citizens United and partisan gerrymandering
Please bring your facebook profile back with your content set for autoplay when scrolling! There’s an older generation tied to that platform who otherwise won’t see this, and the youtube link sharing directs them offsite with no way to format it for autoplay. Keep speaking truth to power!
the worse enemy by far. i knew this would be bad, but it is 10x worse with the rather quick emergence of effulon. he is an aggressively metastatic tumor. quick! surgery!
Note at end, comment about Musk’s threat to primary any disagreeing Republican. This is why local, regional, state organizational action is so important, now! Elon’s money in local (House) primaries and even state (Senate, Governors) can’t so easily overcome very strong and well prepared grassroots.
Everyone I know keeps asking " where are the Dems", but that seems misplaced. They are out of power. It seems to me that the fate of our country is in the hands of Republicans in Congress and Republican voters. I find myself at a loss for what to do other than wait for those folks to wake up.
If term limits are enacted by Congress, then it would not be “anti-constitutional.” Career politicians, captured and funded by interest groups, have materially eroded our democracy
Very well balanced and objective opinion that clearly disseminates how badly the government is broken, and being furthered destroyed by the Republican Congress.
you have a lot of things wrong.
Trump doesnt know what he is doing.
His entire plan was written by the Heritage Foundation. Why is no one talking about the heritage foundation and Anarcho capitalism?
We have come to accept the idea that our politicians are NPCs. But it doesn’t have to be that way! I’m old enough to remember the history that he talks about in this piece.
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This reflects a broader socio-cultural trend which sees frictionlessness/efficiency as the path to social & technological rapture. Blockchain, crypto, AI all remove the messiness of humanity & consent.
Side note: if anyone doubts the problem with $ in politics, think about what it means when Elon Musk or Nicole Shanahan threaten to fund a primary challenge to anyone who votes against confirmation of a cabinet member.
The poisonous fruit of the union of Citizens United and partisan gerrymandering
Trump "is acting like a king because
he is too weak to govern like a president."
Trump doesnt know what he is doing.
His entire plan was written by the Heritage Foundation. Why is no one talking about the heritage foundation and Anarcho capitalism?