Absolutely wild to see people online telling others to become *more individually responsible for their own food safety* when regulations are dismantled, instead of, you know, fighting to not dismantle food safety regulations.

There is a sickness in the USian psyche, and that sickness is the assumption that everything must be solved through independent effort. We leave so much potential unused and waste so much time and energy when we take communal solutions off the table every goddamn time.

@drahardja

Destroying trust is a critical part in establishing an authoritarian dictatorship.

Making people fear, be uncertain, doubt the future, these aren't bugs of the #Republican agenda, they're full on features.

It is deliberate. A concerted effort to disassemble civilization from the inside out.

@Ultraverified @drahardja
Also there is an autocratic schtick of telling the population: “Don’t trust your neighbors, only trust/listen/follow me.”