as stupid as this is right now, consider the absolute certainty that the next Democrat administration will treat “DOGE” as a totally normal and irreplaceable part of our sacred norms, just like Biden did with “space force” and the border wall. in 8 years or so, you will hear Democrats campaigning on the threat that the next Republican president will undermine the necessary work that the DOGE has been doing to implement “bipartisan social security reform”.
an example so perfect it actually slipped my mind. a federal department dedicated to domestic political policing and ethnic cleansing made up on the spot, and now it’s totally normalized.
To be fair, Space Force was a systems thing that was planned/expected/in the works. Trump just took credit and made it a spectacle. But your point stands on so many things that at least seemed like they could have been undone.
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Privatization, austerity, and dismantling systems of social safety are absolutely systems things. The problem is that they can’t be openly planned because of the public backlash. So they need a lightning rod character with the public perception of the necessary audacity, idiocy, and earnestness to make it happen. But I think OP is right that once it’s in place, it will be normalized by the establishment because they need to do this as part of managing the collapse of empire.
as stupid as this is right now, consider the absolute certainty that the next Democrat administration will treat “DOGE” as a totally normal and irreplaceable part of our sacred norms, just like Biden did with “space force” and the border wall. in 8 years or so, you will hear Democrats campaigning on the threat that the next Republican president will undermine the necessary work that the DOGE has been doing to implement “bipartisan social security reform”.
Or the department of homeland security
an example so perfect it actually slipped my mind. a federal department dedicated to domestic political policing and ethnic cleansing made up on the spot, and now it’s totally normalized.
To be fair, Space Force was a systems thing that was planned/expected/in the works. Trump just took credit and made it a spectacle. But your point stands on so many things that at least seemed like they could have been undone.
Also: Conflict of interest that you must register for Twitter to apply?
Also: “Department of Government Ef” accurate
Privatization, austerity, and dismantling systems of social safety are absolutely systems things. The problem is that they can’t be openly planned because of the public backlash. So they need a lightning rod character with the public perception of the necessary audacity, idiocy, and earnestness to make it happen. But I think OP is right that once it’s in place, it will be normalized by the establishment because they need to do this as part of managing the collapse of empire.