I just saw an email with the subject line “Gutting the Student Loan Program” and realized that I’m tired of seeing reports about another outrageous thing done by the grifter’s regime that comes with that breathless feeling of “do you believe they’re doing this?”
Of course I believe they’re doing this. They’re out to destroy everything good about our government. They’re gutting everything you ever though was worth having, not to mention things you didn’t realize existed or realize you needed.
None of the attacks surprise me anymore and I don’t need breathless reports about the latest one. (I think this email is about firing people at the Department of Education, which the Supreme Court just permitted by overturning a stay even though it’s pretty clear that the underlying litigation should be successful.)
Much more useful is what the people at Unbreaking are doing, which is detailed reporting about the ways in which the regime is breaking the government. Looking thoroughly at each bit of destruction is much more useful than spinning outrage, especially since it can provide a way to fight back.
We’re constantly faced with “which one of these things is worse” calls every time an issue comes up. But they’re all bad.
Right now I tend to think the fact that the government employs people they claim are law enforcement agents and lets them go out with their faces covered (not for health reasons) and without badges to kidnap people off the street, coupled with the building of concentration camps and the mocking of the people they lock up in them, is the worst thing that’s going on.
But the overall destruction of good government programs – from civil rights protections to the National Weather Service – is probably just as important, if not as immediately terrifying.
We do need to know about all the different things being done, but pretending to be outraged about the latest one as if we didn’t see it coming is driving me crazy. Continue reading “Stumbling Toward a Path Forward”…