As Abe Oceanoxia mentioned, we’re in an era of endless recovery, where the damage wrought by natural disasters will always outpace our ability to repair it. The slithering shitstain in chief is doing a blitz of horrible moves to make life worse for everyone. Everything has everybody on back heel all the time, which parallels the recovery from natural disasters. Before you can even get a handle on one fucked-up insult to human dignity, you are broadsided with another three.
But at some point, we are going to have to crawl out from under the fecal deluge, and make some moves. You and I can only do so much, and we should of course do that much, but the people most responsible for fighting back? That’s on the decent people in government. What can they do?
It is distinctly possible this is the end of democracy in america for the next few decades. Certainly it feels like the Civil Rights Movement was just busted back to the 1960s. I used to say there was no way a politician on either side of the aisle would want to be the one holding the bag when Social Security runs out of money, but that sentiment belongs to a time when norms existed. We’re in an era of uncharted fuckery, under the fascist deathclown administration. Will they let the SSA fail? They might.
This brings me back to those decent people in government, particularly in states where they have enough power and resources to make real moves for their people. The governments of places like California, Washington, and New York, they need to start uncoupling themselves from the federal government.
What does it matter to your state if Social Security fails, if you have a state retirement system that covers your citizens? What does it matter if Medicare fails, if you have a better state healthcare system? Those things are not so trivial and not so easy, but I contend that they are possible.
Those would be the actions of true states – independent political entities. Easy to forget that the very name of the USA is an artifact of a time when every state wanted to be its own country, with only a nominal federal government. Well, the federal government is about to get nuked from within, so it’s time to start treating the situation with that kind of seriousness.
How hilarious would it be if the NYPD had its budget actually fucking constrained for the first time ever, to pay for important shit the people actually need? It would be soooooooooo fucking easy to spot the excesses. They could keep their massive salaries and benes and number of cops in the city, sure, and still save millions by, oh, say, not having offices in foreign countries? Not having military vehicles? I’d love to see it.
I had another article about this before, more or less, but that one didn’t get this specific. I’m calling on the governments of blue states to make those baller moves. Protect human rights. Get teams of civil rights lawyers figuring out any way possible to keep civil rights decisions from escaping to higher courts staffed by fascist shitlords. Get sociolgists forming comprehensive analyses of the ways people live in your states, where society is failing them, and develop more efficient and effective ways to palliate human suffering – thus making your states even more attractive to people fleeing from the United States of Jesusland.
Get civil engineers thinking of ways to take care of natural disaster preparedness without a lick of federal support. Make concrete plans that will make your states physically safer and better places to invest in, for business and real estate etc. Laugh at places like Florida letting themselves get blasted to pieces year after year, just to stick it to the transes and DEI wokesters. What if Cali could figure out a way to make fire season less dangerous? What an achievement that would be!
Yeah, there are a lot of items on here that seem wildly pie-in-the-sky, even sci-fi, but this is the future, guys. Right now it’s a burning trashfire of a cyberpunk dystopia. The failure of the central government might actually be just the opportunity you need to set this thing off – to really change the world where you are in ways that inspire all of humanity.
Do you have the political will? You’ve never shown that spine before, but these are wild-ass times. Show us what you can do, please.
Hey, why am I not making a hunnerd grand a year in a DC thinktank. George Soros! Hear me! (in the voice of that guy that recorded himself kidnapping his kids and asked Qanon to save him) Give me tha power. Y’all know I’m good for it.
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Really our only option left as the fed speedruns itself toward incompetency and eventual collapse. I guess we can be grateful(?) this spiteful ignoramus is appointing (*) after (*) to top offices while cutting loose of the intelligent people who know what’s what.
We should print your essay here and start posting it on telephone poles and car windshields. We either take care of ourselves or nobody will.
(*edited per GAS ableism policy)
What can they do?
Booby-trap, backdoor, leak.
A bunch of years ago I instigated a project that was intended to place some mental icepicks in a few backs. But it failed utterly because it required thinking and action, from a population which does neither well.
http://cyberinsurgency.org/dear-wage-slave/
thanks for the comments fellers. i’m not getting on them as quick as i sometimes do. all my posts are coming out automatically from a queue at this point, and the freedom has me slow to check in..
I guess I thought the rule against such pejoratives applied to their usage against fellow commenters. Looks like I misread it. We often refer to Trump as a “shitstain” and a “shitheel” and yet the word I used is off-limits. To be clear, I would never, have never, made light of nor intentionally insulted anyone who might be neurodivergent or disabled in any way. I’m one of them myself and, well, context should mean something.
Anyway, as this is the second time now you’ve had to correct me, it’s probably best I just duck out since I obviously keep missing the mark. Thank you for your insightful, entertaining, and often therapeutic posts.
no way, i’d love to still see you around. i believe you are a cool and righteous guy, nowhere near banning you. i just boop the slips is all, in pursuit of a possibly outdated and unnecessary policy from ye elden days of sjw discourse. if you don’t mind boops on them, i don’t care too much about slips