“We are in a low-trust moment, and it binds Right and Left together,” says a GOP pollster writing in The New York Times. Both sides are rapidly losing trust in institutions they once cherished — for example, the military on the part of Conservatives and the news media on the part of Progressives — and the result is a shaky alliance, a nation where no one trusts anything. Doesn’t sound exactly optimal to us.
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Your point that The Radical Left forgets that after they poison and destroy a respectable institution they’re forgetting to restore the respect is an excellent. And now that I think about it, it leads to a more disturbing conclusion. They don’t restore respect because they have no interest in doing so. They’re only capable of creating garbage, so they gaslight us that we’re supposed to lower our standards and accept their debased standards as normal. Destroy enough of the institutions, and you destroy society, leaving it susceptible to the People’s Paradise that Marxism always promises, but instead only delivers piles… Read more »
Speaking of there being an opportunity here, I have an idea. There seems to be a real desire by the short-attention-span masses to have DOGE expose the inane ways our government spends money. That’s great. But an even better idea would be having information put out by either the same or another branch – the IRS? – that broadcasts something like Bill’s “Eat the Rich” video, neutering the thought that our spending needs to grow. Another could show the graph of the percentage of taxes paid by the upper 5%, disabusing us of the rich don’t pay their fair share.… Read more »
This is the most obvious, not said out loud often enough, reason for Trump’s victory. And it’s going to be needed in spades when the existential threat of the deep state unleashes its “quest for survival” last stand against us.