It's unfortunately entirely inline with their political goals. There's been an ongoing attack on upper education, all sciences etc because they're viewed as being part of the problem. Like how Florida has been taking over and installing stooges in colleges to massive negative effect.
> There's been an ongoing attack on upper education, all sciences etc because they're viewed as being part of the problem
Let's be honest, it's coming from both sides. The illiberal left is just as guilty of crucifying academics it disagrees with as the neoauthoritarian right. (Not sure why I feel the need to qualify the latter with neo, but I don't think they'd wilfully authoritarian as much as authoritarian leaning. At least among the rank and file.)
>you may or may not have realized you were voting for this, exactly, but this is what you’ve gotten.
I voted for Trump and I am loving what he has started to do.
Small government has been a Republican Party talking point for as long as I can remember, but noone has actually done it. Not even first term Trump.
This time it's clearly different, for the first time in my life we are taking gigantic hammers and crowbars to tear the government down to size. Yes, it will be painful for all of us (that includes me too) especially in the short-term, but it's something that I firmly believe needs to happen for an even better future and second term Trump is keeping his campaign promise.
We actually got a small glimpse of this during first term Trump when he essentially emptied the State Department and left it that way for the duration of his tenure. The world was surprisingly more peaceful than it ever was and the country did just fine diplomatically, despite loud cries to the contrary.
I want more of that. I want an empty State Department again. I want an empty bureaucracy. I want a small, effective, efficient government. And even better, these mandates come with a mandate for judging people on their merits alone. As a minority (Japanese-American) I am ecstatic that DEI has finally been viciously put out to pasture, I firmly believe that All Men Are Created Equal.
All of this is what I voted for, I am happy I can get to see it all happen for real. If you disagree, and obviously we do, that's unfortunate but we'll just have to agree to disagree.
So far government doesn't seem to be shrinking at all, just being made less effective. If you believe the work state employees do is worse than useless then go ahead and cheer.
I have trouble taking someone seriously when they look at all the functions of government and say not just that they are an ineffective use of tax dollars (cliché and debatable), but that we'd be better off if their funds were simply set on fire than put to use. Because that's what's happening now.
I think what you actually want to happen is for Congress to reduce budgets. Until that happens, you may want to keep the cork in the bottle.
The Germans have a saying that nicely illustrates the current situation in the US: "Den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben" ("Exorcising the devil with Beelzebub").
Unless people come to their senses and boot this insane POTUS and its misanthropist servants, it will end the same fate everybody in Europe had to suffer through during the first half of 20th century. There will be no winners because everybody will just lose. So sad to see this insanity being revived.
> I firmly believe that All Men Are Created Equal.
That’s a nice sentiment if you ignore the fact that not all races have historically been treated equally. We may all be running the same rat race together, but a few of us were allowed to leave the starting line early.
Amen! It's a glorious change of direction for society.
And it's not just Trump who did it, it's the collapse of that whole regime defined by DEI, bureaucracy and hollowed out progressive politics. No one likes it. It's dreadful and not life-affirming.
Living through the pandemic era when progressives went into overdrive to silence their opposition and abuse them in whatever way possible, this is the full-throated rejection of that. And people will never forget how they were treated, it was a minority of radical leftwing people subverting the free will of a majority of society and using fear-tactics to silence critics.
Not surprising when universities have been declared the enemy [1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnhw
It's unfortunately entirely inline with their political goals. There's been an ongoing attack on upper education, all sciences etc because they're viewed as being part of the problem. Like how Florida has been taking over and installing stooges in colleges to massive negative effect.
> There's been an ongoing attack on upper education, all sciences etc because they're viewed as being part of the problem
Let's be honest, it's coming from both sides. The illiberal left is just as guilty of crucifying academics it disagrees with as the neoauthoritarian right. (Not sure why I feel the need to qualify the latter with neo, but I don't think they'd wilfully authoritarian as much as authoritarian leaning. At least among the rank and file.)
No, it's not.
this sort of deeply stupid both-sides-ism is a very large part of the slowly unfolding global catastrophe in the West. be better.
>you may or may not have realized you were voting for this, exactly, but this is what you’ve gotten.
I voted for Trump and I am loving what he has started to do.
Small government has been a Republican Party talking point for as long as I can remember, but noone has actually done it. Not even first term Trump.
This time it's clearly different, for the first time in my life we are taking gigantic hammers and crowbars to tear the government down to size. Yes, it will be painful for all of us (that includes me too) especially in the short-term, but it's something that I firmly believe needs to happen for an even better future and second term Trump is keeping his campaign promise.
We actually got a small glimpse of this during first term Trump when he essentially emptied the State Department and left it that way for the duration of his tenure. The world was surprisingly more peaceful than it ever was and the country did just fine diplomatically, despite loud cries to the contrary.
I want more of that. I want an empty State Department again. I want an empty bureaucracy. I want a small, effective, efficient government. And even better, these mandates come with a mandate for judging people on their merits alone. As a minority (Japanese-American) I am ecstatic that DEI has finally been viciously put out to pasture, I firmly believe that All Men Are Created Equal.
All of this is what I voted for, I am happy I can get to see it all happen for real. If you disagree, and obviously we do, that's unfortunate but we'll just have to agree to disagree.
So far government doesn't seem to be shrinking at all, just being made less effective. If you believe the work state employees do is worse than useless then go ahead and cheer.
I have trouble taking someone seriously when they look at all the functions of government and say not just that they are an ineffective use of tax dollars (cliché and debatable), but that we'd be better off if their funds were simply set on fire than put to use. Because that's what's happening now.
I think what you actually want to happen is for Congress to reduce budgets. Until that happens, you may want to keep the cork in the bottle.
The Germans have a saying that nicely illustrates the current situation in the US: "Den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben" ("Exorcising the devil with Beelzebub").
Unless people come to their senses and boot this insane POTUS and its misanthropist servants, it will end the same fate everybody in Europe had to suffer through during the first half of 20th century. There will be no winners because everybody will just lose. So sad to see this insanity being revived.
> I firmly believe that All Men Are Created Equal.
That’s a nice sentiment if you ignore the fact that not all races have historically been treated equally. We may all be running the same rat race together, but a few of us were allowed to leave the starting line early.
When does the cut-off happen?
Can I claim that I, because of my ancestors in Europe that were routinely bull-dozed by competing empires, deserve compensation?
Amen! It's a glorious change of direction for society.
And it's not just Trump who did it, it's the collapse of that whole regime defined by DEI, bureaucracy and hollowed out progressive politics. No one likes it. It's dreadful and not life-affirming.
Living through the pandemic era when progressives went into overdrive to silence their opposition and abuse them in whatever way possible, this is the full-throated rejection of that. And people will never forget how they were treated, it was a minority of radical leftwing people subverting the free will of a majority of society and using fear-tactics to silence critics.