gregg rMar 13, 2025

@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

Pluralistic: Firing the refs doesn’t end the game (12 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@grheavyroller @pluralistic
This perspective matches my lifetime of experience, but it also seems missing from the public discourse. The red vs blue false dichotomy doesn't accept nor allow this level of clarity. Love or hate government services, but don't dare say they're a good idea but not working well, both red and blue disagree with that reality.

Which is precisely why so many can't understand how we got here, and so many others seem to be cheering on the fires of our democracy.

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