Comment by ModernMech
Comment by ModernMech 13 hours ago
The government is hyper efficient right now. The only efficiency guaranteed under authoritarianism is the will of the authoritarian gets executed without any checks or balances, which is very efficient. Trump wants tariffs, Trump gets tariffs, despite laws saying he can't. Trump wants troops in the cities, Trump gets troops in the cities despite laws saying he can't. Trump wants to bomb boats, Trump gets to bomb boats -- no committees, no votes, no reviews, no assessments -- just exploding boats. Trump wants to bulldoze the Whitehouse, well then by God it's gone the next day. Talk about efficient!
That this doesn't translate into benefits for you personally or the citizens generally does not mean the system is not working very efficiently right now.
"Efficient" is a word that has a positive connotation, but in the context of authoritarianism it means something very very bad for liberty, freedom, civil rights, and democracy -- all things that get in the way of authoritarian efficiency.
To take advantage of those efficiencies you would need to give power to people who understand what they are doing. Trump frankly doesn’t even understand how best to accomplish his own goals, even if we agreed they were worthwhile.