What's happening is a destruction of institutions, under the guise of efficiency.
If your goal was to establish authoritarian system and/or oligarchy in the US within a year and without firing any bullets, what would you do differently to what's happening now? Honest question I've been thinking about lately. My current answer is that the diff is not that big.
Yes, there's much to be done about efficiency/productivity on the government part, but this is not what's being done.
I am not sure if Elon is deliberate (similar to how "X is about free speech", DOGE is about "government efficiency" i.e. fake ideology to push some agenda) or an useful idiot (believes that all he's doing is improving efficiency, without realizing the consequences of destroying the institutions), but that's not the main point. The point is that fundamental institutions are being destroyed very, very quickly, without real oversight. This has important and negative consequences to democracy.
If your goal was to establish authoritarian system and/or oligarchy in the US within a year and without firing any bullets, what would you do differently to what's happening now? Honest question I've been thinking about lately. My current answer is that the diff is not that big.
Yes, there's much to be done about efficiency/productivity on the government part, but this is not what's being done.
I am not sure if Elon is deliberate (similar to how "X is about free speech", DOGE is about "government efficiency" i.e. fake ideology to push some agenda) or an useful idiot (believes that all he's doing is improving efficiency, without realizing the consequences of destroying the institutions), but that's not the main point. The point is that fundamental institutions are being destroyed very, very quickly, without real oversight. This has important and negative consequences to democracy.