The biggest threat to Trump's dismantling of the administrative state is the effect that left wing 'generosity' has had on the bottom seventy percent. The welfare state has possibly fatally poisoned America. Social Security, Medicare, 'free' education (which is basically free baby sitting) for 14 plus years, food stamps, etc., etc. has addicted the vast majority of Americans for multiple generations. And like other addictions it will be an extremely painful process to break. It is the equivalent of the corruption that that the top thirty percent have enriched themselves on for well over a century. Americans are in denial that they are addicted to their unfair share of the loot. Their prime concern is how they can profit from the dismantling of the Left's empire. And the "Right" is already dangling the possibility of receiving bonus checks from the savings from DOGE's chain sawing of the federal bureaucracy, plus the dismantling of the IRS.
Yes, we know that the thirty trillion dollar overspending by our government is not sustainable. But we do not know that Social Security and Obamacare were 'given' to us to hide from us the massive theft by our elected 'representatives' from our national wealth. In our drug imposed stupor our focus has been narrowed to preserving our drug supply. We cannot comprehend our real condition. The needle and feces strewn cities, the filth and not-so-slow death we are experiencing is happening to other, not to ourselves.
The excruciating torment that breaking our addictions may be too much to bear. We will come to see Trump's reforms much as the Left sees them, as a threat to our supply. That is how I interpret this publication. In tearing in to Musk as a templar of Trump you are attacking those who are trying to free us of our addiction just like the addict who turns on his would be rescuers.
Musk is not a disciplined saver making an intervention behalf of us addicts, he is a narcissistic oligarch with a desperation to be broadly liked (while being unlikable), and a horrible political instinct. The DOGE checks were his idea! Instead of building consent for actually cutting these programs to make these cuts enduring, he pretends that a trillion dollar deficit can be fixed just by tackling 'waste' and fraud. He is fundamentally harmful to the Right and becomes more so with each passing day.
He is not without faults, nor is Trump, nor are any of us. But time is of the essence for making changes. Shock and awe will help motivate the Right to see what their addiction has been hiding. And the Left are throwing enough roadblocks. They don't need any more help.
Great analysis , ahead of its time. Cracks beginning to show in the second Trump administration and it hasn’t been the promise of America First that the campaign ran on.
The biggest threat to Trump's dismantling of the administrative state is the effect that left wing 'generosity' has had on the bottom seventy percent. The welfare state has possibly fatally poisoned America. Social Security, Medicare, 'free' education (which is basically free baby sitting) for 14 plus years, food stamps, etc., etc. has addicted the vast majority of Americans for multiple generations. And like other addictions it will be an extremely painful process to break. It is the equivalent of the corruption that that the top thirty percent have enriched themselves on for well over a century. Americans are in denial that they are addicted to their unfair share of the loot. Their prime concern is how they can profit from the dismantling of the Left's empire. And the "Right" is already dangling the possibility of receiving bonus checks from the savings from DOGE's chain sawing of the federal bureaucracy, plus the dismantling of the IRS.
Yes, we know that the thirty trillion dollar overspending by our government is not sustainable. But we do not know that Social Security and Obamacare were 'given' to us to hide from us the massive theft by our elected 'representatives' from our national wealth. In our drug imposed stupor our focus has been narrowed to preserving our drug supply. We cannot comprehend our real condition. The needle and feces strewn cities, the filth and not-so-slow death we are experiencing is happening to other, not to ourselves.
The excruciating torment that breaking our addictions may be too much to bear. We will come to see Trump's reforms much as the Left sees them, as a threat to our supply. That is how I interpret this publication. In tearing in to Musk as a templar of Trump you are attacking those who are trying to free us of our addiction just like the addict who turns on his would be rescuers.
Musk is not a disciplined saver making an intervention behalf of us addicts, he is a narcissistic oligarch with a desperation to be broadly liked (while being unlikable), and a horrible political instinct. The DOGE checks were his idea! Instead of building consent for actually cutting these programs to make these cuts enduring, he pretends that a trillion dollar deficit can be fixed just by tackling 'waste' and fraud. He is fundamentally harmful to the Right and becomes more so with each passing day.
He is not without faults, nor is Trump, nor are any of us. But time is of the essence for making changes. Shock and awe will help motivate the Right to see what their addiction has been hiding. And the Left are throwing enough roadblocks. They don't need any more help.
Great analysis , ahead of its time. Cracks beginning to show in the second Trump administration and it hasn’t been the promise of America First that the campaign ran on.