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Historically Congress hasn’t been being led around by its most extreme elements, but that’s no longer the case in the HoR. So we might be in for some all new de
by im_down_w_otp 3y ago
Historically Congress hasn’t been being led around by its most extreme elements, but that’s no longer the case in the HoR. So we might be in for some all new degrees of “let it burn” posturing that we haven’t experienced before.
- lowercased 3y agoThis is what has me on edge a bit. The reps of party in charge is seemingly run by people intent on scoring social media points, and the more they get, the more they double down on crazy. Much like Trump, many of the reps in place seem to lack basic shame, which makes them dangerous. Most of the processes and norms we have in place assume some level of shame to act as a breaker. If you have just one person acting out, the system might survive. When you have dozens, all acting without shame, we get in to new uncharted territory.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Historically Congress hasn’t been being led around by its most extreme elements The Republican Party in Congress has been since at least 1994, which is why they have engineered debt ceiling crises at least once in every Democratic Administration since the Congress elected in 1994.
- im_down_w_otp 3y agoRight. My point is that before it was score political points against political opposition. However, that Republican opposition back then was still catering to regular rich people who don’t want the US to actually default just for the lulz and to pwn the libs. The current lot in charge is more of the “burn it all down” sort which isn’t catering to regular rich people, but rather is catering to QAnon’ers. So, it’s less clear that it’s all just posturing and how far they’ll go with such posturing.