Should the Democrats have held the line while SNAP was shut down?
And if the Republicans then nuked the filibuster (as Trump was demanding), leaving the Democrats with even less power? Then what? What's their next move after that?
Bluster bluster bluster from the Left, no game theory.
The Julie Roginsky piece describes Britain's (& the EU's) attitude to Trump perfectly. And Labour's attitude to everything, also perfectly.
It's as if they're all hoping everything will somehow go back to some non-existent 1990s "normal," & the post-2008 Crash world is just an aberration that will self-correct itself back into something they can recognise & cope with.
Parallels with the Past are easy to draw & over-exaggerate, but when their 1930s predecessors failed to grasp the nature of the New Order it didn't end well.
I don't think it's a question of the nation losing faith in the ability of the government to deliver on its promises—that's already an observable fact—it's a question of whether we're brave enough to walk the untrodden and unseen path and build a government that is truly transparent and democratic. If so, then we need to decentralize and repurpose the wheel that is democracy.
If the Dems reclaim Congress, and it we return to "politics as normal" we will lose this nation forever. A sinking ship is a sinking ship, so before we set a course we must first patch the holes, and there's a way to do it: mariochavez.substack.com/p/Democracy's-Software-Patch
Lotsa words, no action items.
Should the Democrats have held the line while SNAP was shut down?
And if the Republicans then nuked the filibuster (as Trump was demanding), leaving the Democrats with even less power? Then what? What's their next move after that?
Bluster bluster bluster from the Left, no game theory.
The Julie Roginsky piece describes Britain's (& the EU's) attitude to Trump perfectly. And Labour's attitude to everything, also perfectly.
It's as if they're all hoping everything will somehow go back to some non-existent 1990s "normal," & the post-2008 Crash world is just an aberration that will self-correct itself back into something they can recognise & cope with.
Parallels with the Past are easy to draw & over-exaggerate, but when their 1930s predecessors failed to grasp the nature of the New Order it didn't end well.
Sidebar: To Keep Crime Going, Create a Problem, Then Blame Trump.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/create-a-problem-then-blame-trump
Politics is combat, plain and simple.
I don't think it's a question of the nation losing faith in the ability of the government to deliver on its promises—that's already an observable fact—it's a question of whether we're brave enough to walk the untrodden and unseen path and build a government that is truly transparent and democratic. If so, then we need to decentralize and repurpose the wheel that is democracy.
If the Dems reclaim Congress, and it we return to "politics as normal" we will lose this nation forever. A sinking ship is a sinking ship, so before we set a course we must first patch the holes, and there's a way to do it: mariochavez.substack.com/p/Democracy's-Software-Patch