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> I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from
by BeetleB 1y ago
> I would say it isn't that our institutions were built on sand, more that its hard to stop a madman who broke into your house with a chainsaw (a la Musk) from knocking down a few load-bearing walls.
This isn't due to one man (Musk) or a rogue government agency, or even the executive branch.
This is Congress, which tells you how bad things have gotten.
- DFHippie 1y agoIt isn't Congress writ large, is the Republican caucus in Congress. And the Republican caucus in the SCOTUS.
- BeetleB 1y agoTrue, but the point being it's a large percentage of the government, representing a significant percentage of the population.
- subsistence234 1y agoactually it's the voters.
- cryptonector 1y ago> This is Congress, which tells you how bad things have gotten. Ok, but to be clear, Congress gets to. Congress has done about-faces like this before, yet the Republic is still here.
- BeetleB 1y ago> Ok, but to be clear, Congress gets to. Obviously - there's no implication of processes not being followed. My point, which mirrors yours, is that this isn't the result of a rogue actor. It's a result of collective action.