i think that people are conditioned by the absolutely tiny changes we have made over the past thirty years to believe that nothing is possible, but we built the administrative state in four years
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Tbh I don’t know if people really want the administrative state reassembled post-civil rights short of a significant decline in living standards attributed to its collapse, which of course isn’t out of the question
aug 28, 2025, 5:43 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm not a doomer, but there is a huge difference between organizations existing and being in the state they were in on January 17
aug 28, 2025, 1:06 am • 8 0 • view
also it's not clear that the 40 year old version of institutions works better than the 40 month old versions
aug 28, 2025, 1:00 am • 56 0 • view
An institution’s venerability making it more effective, robust and able to defend itself is just as much a fallacy of an “experienced” leader being better. Sometimes a rookie is the best player in the league. Sometimes a 30 year old general wipes the floor with a 70 year old veteran campaigner.
aug 28, 2025, 1:05 am • 21 0 • view
I think it's true enough, as long you have a robust civil service and competitive pay. I think it quickly becomes sclerotic after a couple generations without that.
aug 28, 2025, 1:26 am • 6 0 • view
1933 to 1937 or 1941 to 1945?
aug 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Legit question! But either way.
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
It is definitely one of those two 4 year chunks
aug 28, 2025, 3:23 am • 2 0 • view
When shit’s going well you make small changes because people don’t want the boat rocked. When the boat’s sinking, there’s not that shyness about change.
aug 28, 2025, 1:16 am • 49 0 • view
Man do I hope that we can get enough people to believe that the boat is actually sinking
aug 28, 2025, 1:26 am • 20 0 • view
As soon as the AI investment oroborus stops going round and round here stuff will get real fast. There is no revenue to justify the hundreds of billions in FOMO spending that is the last thing holding the economy together.
aug 28, 2025, 6:14 am • 3 0 • view
Nah. Most of us are waiting for the quest pop up. That instruction of "now is the time. Build. Stand. Grow." We play games where we kill dragons to get a house. Where we move mountains. We're told we can't. Now there's a green light unlit. But we can see it. We are roaring to FUCKING GO.
aug 28, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
And it was 2 years between the 1929 market crash and FDR being elected. We still have a long road of pain and building momentum before we get there, but we can do it.
aug 28, 2025, 1:45 am • 4 0 • view
What would you consider the start and end of that?
aug 28, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
Sure, but it's harder to get all the people you need if they think everything might be destroyed again a few years later
aug 28, 2025, 8:26 am • 3 0 • view
whats the @unavaleable.bsky.social post about people believe more in the death of the union than they do about the 6th party system? these guys are going to lose and it is incumbent upon us to make great improvements in the wake of their failure
aug 28, 2025, 1:17 am • 7 0 • view
Problem is the science losses
aug 29, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
Pete Dominick posted today that Dems have done everything possible to deal with guns but that darn GOP prevented all of it. I said ‘for 30 yrs?, if that’s the case, then it’s actually impossible & so is anything else’. He told me I didn’t know anything, shut up, then said I attacked him
aug 28, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
we are gonna have to figure out some new coalitions though, because I don't think expansive social democracy is winning back the southern Klansman vote anytime soon and that was a load-bearing pillar in the New Deal coalition, somehow
aug 28, 2025, 1:34 am • 37 0 • view
Gotta lean in to woke
aug 28, 2025, 1:44 am • 17 0 • view
It’s not that much of a mystery. The southern klansman vote was also representing some of the most impoverished parts of the country and the New Deal made their lives better in its wake.
aug 28, 2025, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
I didn't say it's a mystery why they supported FDR, I said it's not happening a 2nd time.
aug 28, 2025, 5:01 am • 7 0 • view
also uh, as reconstructionist likes banging the drum on, even before the civil rights act, the southern klansmen effectively defected and began a 20-year conservative coalition with republicans, even while still having the D next to their names
aug 28, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Right! We just gain sufficient power and start making the laws we want! We can totally reform anything we want with the will. I think people can't imagine the good guys having power in America again.
aug 28, 2025, 1:00 am • 35 0 • view
GOP has been building the Super Predator state since W unleashed the white collar banking criminals upon the consumer. The Enron state. Followed by the War on Terror which insulated us from "terror" while cutting us off from humanity. We have raised a generation of nazis since 2000.
aug 28, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Francis was half right, but history didn’t end. It was merely on pause. He himself admits history is back with a vengeance, for better or worse.
aug 28, 2025, 1:02 am • 6 0 • view