Meanwhile, Just Dance Vance is keeping the violent cycle in our politics alive.
@Notgonnastop Media Matters has apparently closed. I'm not sure that's a big loss, but he's targetting Act Blue. Transparently partisan. Transparent.
@Notgonnastop Foreign Affairs in considered too "deep state" for both progs and MAGAts, but they have been delivering lately.
As we described in Foreign Affairs in late January, ungoverning is rare in the history of politics. Authoritarians generally want to take over a state so they can use it, not so they can destroy it. They need loyalty and select for it, but they also need competence. Trump, by contrast, shreds regular procedures, shrugs off the expertise needed to bring policies to life, and promotes administrative incompetence in order to eliminate any authority other than himself. None of his decisions are about slashing bureaucratic red tape or privatizing parts of the state. Instead, he issues capricious commands and negotiates deals that serve his whims.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ungoverning-america
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@threalist You are indeed off base.
The man who thought random killings were the price we had to pay for the right to bear arms was indeed randomly killed by a man bearing arms.
But a speaker of the Minnesota legislature was killed along with her husband and her dog a couple of months ago, and Just Dance expressed absolute silence.
Legislators across the country have increased their security measures, and Congress has increased the security budget for their members.
The recent killing was one of many. This has been going on for years. That's why it's a cycle (which Just Dance wants to keep going).