Getting into office is a measure of fundraising, favors, and platitudes - being in office is increasingly extended campaigning.
My DMs tell me that I look like I'm not ok from this thread. ⤵️
I am not ok.
This is not ok.
But it isn't just this series of events...it's that this series of events comes from years of escalation and lack of enforcement, and by all appearances will be followed by the same.
2020: I am an irony serial killer
— Tiffany Bond \U0001f99e\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@TiffanyBond) January 6, 2021
2021: behold, I am here to deliver verklempt verbatim irony; v^2 irony https://t.co/mvViEtV0cC
Getting into office is a measure of fundraising, favors, and platitudes - being in office is increasingly extended campaigning.
Our legislators are in the same club, divided in two distinctly different screwed up clubs.
Always.
No matter what has to be said or done.
Coup? No problem!
Sure.
And anyone who enabled this should also be removed.
The other simply appears to not have the stomach for it, failing to serve up functional consequences for decades in the name of collegial relationships.
It's compounded by mostly powerless individuals, willing to thrust themselves into this farce to demand anyone help or see them, even if their reason is bad.
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Krugman is, of course, right about this. BUT, note that universities can do a lot to revitalize declining and rural regions.
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
One thing I've been noticing about responses to today's column is that many people still don't get how strong the forces behind regional divergence are, and how hard to reverse 1/ https://t.co/Ft2aH1NcQt
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote: