The US needs a whole party of "corruption liquidators"
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I used to be the most moderate of moderate voters. Bog standard in every conceivable dimension. My policy preferences were all painted in a thick coat of beige. If you looked up "median voter" in the dictionary, you would find my picture.
The last decade of Trump and the failed attempts to hold him accountable and bar him from political power radicalized me.
None of the powerful institutions that make moderate or neo-lib politics work can do any good without exhaustive efforts towards accountability and reform.
Want to engage in military adventurism abroad? Well, you can't engage in meaningful military interventions with a military whose sole combat experience is occupying itself to crush dissent and killing unarmed civilians in boats in the Caribbean, whose naval fleets are filled with stupid Trump-class battleships, whose allies have all been alienated, and whose leadership and personnel have been purged of women, minorities, trans, and anyone other than politically reliable sycophants.
Want to restore law and order to crack down on serious crime? Sorry, can't do that once Trump has hollowed out DOJ and left our federal law enforcement officers without any skills except rounding up harmless dark skinned people for sport.
Want to restore America's standing in the global economy with pro-business policies? Sorry, can't do that if the rest of the world doesn't trust us enough to invest in our companies or buy their products.
And you can't safely rebuild those institutions until you're sure they can't be used against ourselves. Otherwise we're just one election away from all of this nightmare happening again, driven by a combination of remorseless extremists, a bored, disengaged, and disenfranchised electorate, and structural flaws in our democracy.
Even for moderates and neo-libs, you cannot achieve your goals without accountability and reform. Without accountability and reform, all of those institutions are just loaded guns left loose in a room full of toddlers.
And then watching the SAME pattern play out in multiple countries at once, over generations, tells me it's a STRATEGY, this is the playbook. The only major difference between neoconservatives and neoliberals is that one is aggressive and the other is passive aggressive. The agenda is the same, but only one will smile sweetly and use Non-Violent Communication as they're getting it done.
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