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Call it a coup, call it illegal - but there is something else it looks like... [1]
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Date: 2025-02-03
It struck me that what we are seeing happen to the U.S. Government is something that would not be considered strange or unprecedented in another context. Consider a few things:
A freeze on spending, with draconian budget cuts
Entire divisions shut down, merged, or transferred
A purge of leaders
Installation of loyalist replacements
Cancellation of long-running programs
Mass firings
Assets being set up for looting
Manipulation of accounting numbers
PR bullshit that this is all to increase efficiency and save money
Diversionary attacks on others and previous leaders, to blame them for problems
The sense that no one can stop it from happening — it’s just how things work
Where do we see things like this happening routinely? Where do we see this treated as something that’s considered acceptable — desirable even?
This is what it looks like when vulture capitalists descend on a company and loot it.
This is a hostile takeover — applied to government.
This is what they truly mean when they refer to running government like a business.
There’s a lot of bullshit that capitalism and free markets are inseparable from democracy, but the truth is no business is run like a democracy. Workers don’t get a vote. They do what they are told or they are out the door. Dissenting opinions are not welcome. Executives have no responsibility to workers or customers or communities — just shareholders.
And here we are — if we let them keep doing it to us.
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