LIVING THROUGH HISTORY IN THE MAKING (Part 3.)
In week three of the new administration, we’re clearly in the midst of an authoritarian, fast-moving smash and grab coup.
We’re living through history in the making – history hopped up on meth, steroids, and Red Bull – America is witness to a coup in real time.
Led by an unelected billionaire, a handful of tech bros with no official clearance (a made-up out of thin air department doesn’t count) are stripping US government agencies for parts.
We’re faced with a fundamental question.
How do we stop the collapse of America by an internal coup?
This hostile takeover is real and it’s coming from within.
Let’s not be distracted from the sideshow press conferences while our democratic institutions are being broken, stolen, and destroyed.
What can our elected officials do, besides give strongly worded press conferences?
Yes, it’s good they made more of us aware of this coup by using what’s left of the media, but without much at their disposal in the way of checks and balances, and the court of public opinion, who can we count on besides brave insiders who are willing to take a stand.
We’ve seen this happen to other countries, and we applauded from afar when they were able to nip their coup in the bud before it became a complete takeover.
What can we do now, in our moment of history in the making?
Do our elected democratic leaders have enough power to stop this coup in its tracks, and prevent it from destroying our country?
Already, heads of essential government departments have been fired, locked out, and quit.
By locking out, and forcing out career civil servants that possess institutional knowledge, there won’t be any people able left to say, “This isn’t the way it’s done.” Or “We can’t do that.”
Some of the highest-level government agencies that’ve been broken into, or have been targeted are the Treasury Department, Medicare, Medicaid, USAID, OSHA, NOAA, the CIA, the FBI, the EPA, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Department of Education.
These departments are economic lifelines – direct payments for monthly benefits, payments for medicines and medical procedures, life-saving foreign aid (USAID was established by JFK), national and international security, environmental protections, protecting consumers on every level, and educating children (hopefully when all this has passed, we’ll understand how taking Civics out of the school curriculum can lead to a coup).
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It is a wake-up call with a single question: What is your backup plan? We are so reliant on things being the way they always were. Redundancy means having extra layers of protection so that if one system, tool, or resource fails, another is immediately available to take its place.
It’s about eliminating single points of failure and ensuring that no one mishap, accident, or oversight can completely derail you. All of our attention and resources are massively shifting to the backup and that will be mighty disruptive to the American economy when we stop "business as usual", stop spending, and that turns off the tap of tax flow cash into the U.S. Treasury.
Spot on and timely, Russell. In the State of Texas, senators Cuuz and Cornyn are a problem without immediate solution. HOWEVER, representative Jasmine Crockett has a voice and is not a bit afraid to use it. In dire times, voices of articulate reason and justified resistance arise. I say support them.