Comment by exceptione
1 day ago
DOGE isn't about efficiency, it is about removing checks and balances. Those are there to prevent malware like the GOP to take over the system.
I hope the people behind the submission get their message across. But you shouldn't have the conversation about efficiency. That is entirely the distraction.
Don't talk me about efficient governance of autocracy. It always ends in burning down the land on which it feasts.
> Don't talk me about efficient governance of autocracy.
Autocracies are not efficient at all. There's corruption everywhere.
The larger the state, the more opportunities for corruption. Of course, dismantling the fat state will anger many - those who are fed by it. Unfortunately some "false positives" are part of the process. All the rest is poetry.
We are so way beyond any reasonable "you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette" arguments, and those are cheap talking points that I could have gotten on fox news that you are mindlessly repeating. You are tossing the baby out with the bathwater destroying all checks and balances as you go. This is the death of reason and nuance. This is how autocracy gets a foot in the door. This is the beginning of the end of democracy. And you're cheering on the autocrats.
You should be afraid of one thing. The sane-looking replacement of Trump.
When the fascists conclude the take-over is complete, they will prop up someone with a more acceptable appearance, and the public will be relieved. The media will keep a narrow focus on just the drama of actualities. But still, a tyranny installed, democracy gone. And people will accept it as the new normal. Everyone will keep normalizing everything, the rituals of democracy as a smokescreen for the powerful.
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