This is starting to get kinda funny. The executive/judiciary is now a do/undo symmetry while the legislature continues in neutral. The system is designed not for gridlock but for backsliding.
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Actually it’s even better. The system is designed to dismantle itself. It now has more power to undo than to do. The Hamiltonian strong state is toast. We’re headed to accelerationist ancapotopia.
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I think we’re about to see ultrareaganomics. Neoliberalism on steroids. A Stranger Things style retro 80s reboot of politics.
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In a way Trump and Biden are both irrelevant. The system’s irreversible doomsday mode was triggered during the 2010 midterms. I was not yet a citizen at that point and not really paying attention.
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I think the one thing that’s still murky to me about the situation is why the democrats still haven’t discarded the filibuster to get a last rush of things done before they’re locked out of power for a generation 🤔
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I can’t believe nobody has the leverage to get Manchin/Sinema in line, but I suspect there is broader reluctance to use the nuclear option anyway since it probably means handing the gerontocratic part of the party handing the keys over to AOC left or something
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I no longer have strong feelings about any of this. It’s turned into a spectator sport with a foregone conclusion. The national divorce at state level seems pretty complete.
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Just what this situation needs: two competing nuclear-armed militaries with advanced intelligence capabilities
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