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Showing Original Post only (View all)A serious question: Can America recover from this disastrous Trump regime? [View all]
How much of our democracy have we lost?
Just as Steve Bannon predicted, they have destroyed, to a large degree, the "adminstrative state".
Even with a disaster like the flash flood in Kerrville, TX, they no longer have FEMA to help the victims the way they need to be helped. The Federal government is there to help states in times like these when the states do not have the money or personnel to assist where it is needed.
Trump and Rubio just announced within the last week cuts of over 1300 people at the State Dept. They are tearing the government down bit by bit. How much do we need this "government"? They are not doing it in thoughtful or productive way. They are taking the chainsaw to it. Just as when they cut nuclear scientists, or the people that handled our nuclear materials, and tried to hire them back.
But those cuts are not the real harm done to our democracy. They have divided the nation into tribes and fed them poison propaganda to not trust, but even hate, their neighbors, friends, and even their own families. How do we repair that?
Now, we have armed troops in the streets, arresting and disappearing people who may be US citizens. Even if not citizens, it is a nightmare from which we have not yet awakened. It can only get worse. The Judges are no longer able to keep up with the transgressions against our Constitution. The Legislature and Executive, and the Supreme Court, were casualties quite a while ago.
Is it possible to recover and have a better system of government than the one we used to have?
