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The Pursuit of “Shaminess”
Government by misplaced anticipation.
As America experiences a transfer of power, the new administration rolls out multiple shams.
To be elected these days is to try democracy.
What’s reported publicly is more thin-skinned reaction than evidence of experienced processing. A far right leader in France helps bring down the government admitting disrespect from the opposition motivated her. An act of “self-defenestration” (1) by the FBI Director sets the stage for politicizing the federal agency charged with enforcing the law.
American media is stuck in pre-inauguration stupor. Even the optics of stolen power go unreported. We should know when we are being fleeced, but we are reluctant to share our collective loss.
Even #metoo sounds like a distant perturbation.
It has been said that freedom is sooner given up than taken away. (2) Strikingly, those who give up their freedom profess an unforeseen consequence to their voluntary delivery. Government by misplaced anticipation.
“You’ll miss it when it’s gone.” Like America’s post-COVID economic rosiness.
The sham of the anti-regulation momentum traversing America is a conviction prior to investigation that rules, “guardrails,” will slow (inevitable) progress. As America’s…
