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It isn't being done by a political party for partisan goals, though there are certainly innumerable willing and willfully blind accomplishes in the party infras

It isn't being done by a political party for partisan goals, though there are certainly innumerable willing and willfully blind accomplishes in the party infrastructure. It is being done by a criminal leadership, as part of ordinary practice. It's really, really important to make that distinction. Across the US government, infrastructure is being dismantled. That is what criminal organizations do. These are the spoils of war. It is not inside the system. It is outside the system, destroying it. That people believe this is a legitimate, though twisted, partisan enterprise...is part of the fun of the criminal act. It is happening, out in the open, by sociopaths.

jonahbenton 6y ago
Don't downvote. Valid distinction, factual reporting.
evan_ 6y ago
it is the political party, though. If it were an isolated gang of criminals then you would expect the political party to vote to remove, distance themselves, scowl at them, anything. With extremely few, vanishingly few exceptions, they are not.
dragonwriter 6y ago
> It isn't being done by a political party for partisan goals, though there are certainly innumerable willing and willfully blind accomplishes in the party infrastructure. Yes it is; dismantling the public post has been a Republican partisan goal for more than half a century, it's why we have the USPS instead of the US Post Office, it's why the USPS when it didn't fail quickly enough was saddled with unique pre-funding requirements for retiree health benefits, and it's why the members of the Republican Party that don't have direct buy in to the additional corrupt motivations of the present administration are standing by while it happens. The same is true of similar, more -immediately-corrupt-than-the-broader-partisan-motive efforts elsewhere in this administration that leverage long-standing Republican partisan interests. > It is being done by a criminal leadership, as part of ordinary practice. That's also true, but it's not either/or.

jonahbenton 6y ago

Don't downvote. Valid distinction, factual reporting.

evan_ 6y ago

it is the political party, though. If it were an isolated gang of criminals then you would expect the political party to vote to remove, distance themselves, scowl at them, anything. With extremely few, vanishingly few exceptions, they are not.

dragonwriter 6y ago

> It isn't being done by a political party for partisan goals, though there are certainly innumerable willing and willfully blind accomplishes in the party infrastructure. Yes it is; dismantling the public post has been a Republican partisan goal for more than half a century, it's why we have the USPS instead of the US Post Office, it's why the USPS when it didn't fail quickly enough was saddled with unique pre-funding requirements for retiree health benefits, and it's why the members of the Republican Party that don't have direct buy in to the additional corrupt motivations of the present administration are standing by while it happens. The same is true of similar, more -immediately-corrupt-than-the-broader-partisan-motive efforts elsewhere in this administration that leverage long-standing Republican partisan interests. > It is being done by a criminal leadership, as part of ordinary practice. That's also true, but it's not either/or.