I admit it: I have lost all hope for the immediate future. Things will continue to get worse, not better, and the most we can hope for is a valiant rearguard action against a rising tide of not just authoritarianism, but ignorant, meme-level authoritarianism.
The future is here and it is staggeringly stupid.
At 66, I may not live to see the end of it, especially if the current Administration manages to crash the economy or stumble into a world war. Even if all they manage to do is hose Social Security. Medicare and ACA-driven insurance markets, they'll do me real harm.
This is not to say our Federal bureaucracy is a model of perfection; it's messy. It's slow. It is undoubtedly wasteful -- but you don't fix that with a handful of 20-something software engineers and deep, uninformed cuts.
Every government that has prided itself on "efficiency" has been heedless of human cost, indifferent to human suffering, injurious to individual freedom and dignity. The Trump Administration's unwarranted vandalism to USAID has already cost lives and will cost many more. They're dinking with the military, with the VA, with Education, and they're lurching towards a Constitutional crisis with the potential to do immense harm.
And some of you are still cheering for this.
Me, I'm resigned to hanging on with no prospect of a better life and scant odds it will stay even as good as it is.
You wanted King Stork. Well, you got him.
Update
1 month ago
2 comments:
Yep it is easy to rage on everything and burn it all down but rebuilding on the ashes takes time and effort. Some of the Republican congress critters are starting to realize how much federal funding their states are going to lose which might limit DOGE's firestorm.
Unfortunately, I fear you are right.
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