@pluralistic : "Trump won office in part by insisting that America's institutions were not fit for purpose. He wasn't lying about that (for a change). The thing he was lying about was his desire to fix them. Trump doesn't want honest refs – he wants *no* refs. To defeat Trumpism, we need to stop pretending that our institutions are just fine – we need to confront their failings head on and articulate a plan to fix them"
Play the right game; keep playing it to the end.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epistemological-void/#do-your-own-research
@grheavyroller @pluralistic Everyone talks about how bad our administrative state is, I don’t see it. Everything could probably use some tweaking or “improvements” and that’s what the IG’s are for. That’s what they did! Civil servants are awesome and in every group there are some, shall we say lazy people, but not corrupt or trying to take the system down like the muskrat is so that he can sell it and our public lands to tfg’s own companies and broligarchs.