There's good reason for the outrage. President Trump is coming into his second term driving a killdozer. Elon Musk, the techbro buddy who seems to be along for a four-year ride, is Nazi-saluting and trying to get into payment accounts managed by the U.S. Treasury and dismantling USAID at the behest of China.
The outrage machine, however, won't do a thing to stop any of this.
Outrage from both the left and the right is being steered toward the base of both sides. Republicans don't want the RINOs, and it seems the Democrats are holding everyone tained by the right in deep contempt.
No one is talking to the other side. They're shouting at each other, not at the soggy middle where perhaps inroads could be made to stop the Heemeyerification of Washington, DC.
Maybe things will get more rational. But I doubt it.
I understand getting the base riled up. That's what parties do. But the other side talking to the base? Not gonna happen in this potlicial climate, because the base of either party isn't listening. You can't have a rational discussion with either side, both of which are using the same screaming at each other tactics that will not ever, in a thousand years, change a mind.
What to do? I don't know. I'm not a political genius. Maybe I need to read this. Or not. I don't know. But I know talking is better than screaming. If I can find someone to talk with anymore.
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