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Comment by tremon

8 days ago

if people felt the government was working for them

There's two things you need to make people feel the government is working for them:

* good social policies

* adequate education

One of the US parties has been working for decades to sabotage both, and with the help of the media they've successfully managed to deflect all the blame for it. So no, I don't agree that DOGE is a symptom of a larger problem -- unless you mean that the problem is 50 years of consistently undermining the government.

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dmichulke  7 days ago

Since 1993 there were 20 blue years and 12 red years.

Why wasn't it fixed?

  • dragonwriter  7 days ago

    Those were mostly purple years; the United States isn't—at least, when functioning approximately according the the Constitutional rules, which has suddenly become an important qualifier—a unitary executive dictatorship.