I mean, we used to have some great institutions like the consumer protection bureau, the FCC, EPA…. There used to be a lot of large top end federal institutions that were very responsive to local communities. In fact, they were the only ones that could manage the local communities during the Jim Crow era. So I don’t know if trump has proved anything it’s that there is some need to wrangle power away from states who would poison and oppress their people. Gerrymandering away and otherwise eroding voting power at the federal level is a huge deal. Disparity of civic education outcomes nationally are a huge deal. People have been getting dumber and dumber for the last 40 years. It didn’t all happen overnight.
education is critical in this whole thing and it is telling that it is consistently under attack. when people get smartened up about something - shit gets done.
I mean, we used to have some great institutions like the consumer protection bureau, the FCC, EPA…. There used to be a lot of large top end federal institutions that were very responsive to local communities. In fact, they were the only ones that could manage the local communities during the Jim Crow era. So I don’t know if trump has proved anything it’s that there is some need to wrangle power away from states who would poison and oppress their people. Gerrymandering away and otherwise eroding voting power at the federal level is a huge deal. Disparity of civic education outcomes nationally are a huge deal. People have been getting dumber and dumber for the last 40 years. It didn’t all happen overnight.
education is critical in this whole thing and it is telling that it is consistently under attack. when people get smartened up about something - shit gets done.