Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.
Not sure what else history will say about these fucking morons. The book is way too short, and I’m sure there is a lot more to cover in something much longer than just over 200 pages.
Every time I see some galaxy-brained post or think-piece about how we need “generational change” I think we should reflect on how these assholes conducted themselves, and many of them were under 30.
The dynamic you are describing—the convergence of Michael Lewis’s Blockers, Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, and the legacy of the 1971 Powell Memo and later documents—presents a comprehensive blueprint of how public trust in governance and social goods was systematically dismantled by gop/maga over the last 50 years. By tracing this lineage, it becomes clear how a long-term economic strategy evolved into the highly aggressive, “chainsaw” administrative tactics seen today, resulting in the regression of vital public health and democratic metrics.
Yes, 100%. Narratives that generalize artificial notions of “generations” only really serves the interest of marketers and people looking to divide and conquer.
It gets even dumber when you learn that there is not much supporting evidence that shows that people get more conservative as they get older…
But yeah, a whole lot of ink being spilled about how we need to have the Democrats all turn on each other on not only lots of purity tests, but simply on the number of times they’ve been around the sun? And people constantly taking up not only the right wing mantra of “term limits”, but also age limits? Get the fuck outta here with that noise…
Generational cohort scapegoating is no better than attacking people based on their Chinese horoscope signs.
And yeah, term limits, in particular, empower party apparatchiks and civil servants and weaken eleted officials. The result of that is more regulatory capture and more power to the parties’ big donors.
People confuse naïvety with left-wing. Sure, young people are going to be more forgivingly left or more absolutistly right before experience shades in some more of the greys.
Reading The Blockers is infuriating AF.
Not sure what else history will say about these fucking morons. The book is way too short, and I’m sure there is a lot more to cover in something much longer than just over 200 pages.
Every time I see some galaxy-brained post or think-piece about how we need “generational change” I think we should reflect on how these assholes conducted themselves, and many of them were under 30.
Generational change, my red rosy.
Don’t judge the whole generation off the confederate dick riders. Instead I suggest directing your anger at the oligarchs who enabled them.
The hench(wo)men are culpable too. Don’t let them off the hook.
Generational strife is yet more distraction from class strife.
Yes, 100%. Narratives that generalize artificial notions of “generations” only really serves the interest of marketers and people looking to divide and conquer.
It gets even dumber when you learn that there is not much supporting evidence that shows that people get more conservative as they get older…
But yeah, a whole lot of ink being spilled about how we need to have the Democrats all turn on each other on not only lots of purity tests, but simply on the number of times they’ve been around the sun? And people constantly taking up not only the right wing mantra of “term limits”, but also age limits? Get the fuck outta here with that noise…
Generational cohort scapegoating is no better than attacking people based on their Chinese horoscope signs.
And yeah, term limits, in particular, empower party apparatchiks and civil servants and weaken eleted officials. The result of that is more regulatory capture and more power to the parties’ big donors.
People confuse naïvety with left-wing. Sure, young people are going to be more forgivingly left or more absolutistly right before experience shades in some more of the greys.