Supah_Schmendrick
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Supah_Schmendrick
14d ago
The cult of action is not a new thing. It is, I suspect, a deep rooted psychological type. Speed, brutality, decisiveness - action for the sake of action - are conflated with effectiveness by certain kinds of people, while caution, planning, and introspection are viewed with contempt. Of course, it's hardly a universal perspective. You have plenty of people with pretty much the opposite view.
But this action was both. Yes, the incursion itself was accomplished very rapidly, but there were also breathless stories about the exhaustive preparation for the strike; how Delta Force built an exact replica of the building they snatched Maduro from to practice raid tactics and timing on (similar to how the SEALS practiced on a mock-up of Bin Laden's Abbottabad complex); how the administration was monitoring Maduro's comings and goings for months in order to build up a perfect picture of his habits and whereabouts, etc.
I don't think this can be pattern-matched to a fascist-futurist aesthetic "Cult of Speed" thing.
Supah_Schmendrick
14d ago
Famously, the Brits did the same thing with war hero Winston Churchill - out the door as soon as the war was clearly over, to make room for post-war economic concerns.
Supah_Schmendrick
18d ago
You'd need to install a super-powerful non-delegation doctrine preventing Congress from passing broad enabling acts and then leaving all the actual regulating to executive agencies. And probably ban cameras/TV from the House/Senate floor. Otherwise they'll just keep doing that and resuming their job as Jr Varsity TV pundits.
Supah_Schmendrick
19d ago
Call a constitutional convention with the express stated purpose of switching the US over to a parliamentary system. Everyone hates the current system.
Because the one thing that doesn't work in the current system is the legislative branch. We're good at electing national avatars, "good" at constructing deep-state bureaucracies, and good at having hypertrophic judiciaries/legal oversight.
What we're NOT good at is actually doing representative legislation. Congress is increasingly a useless puppet show. Outright eliminating the independent executive and shoving everything at congress (or a new "American Parliament") is liable just lock in civil service rule as it has in much of the rest of the anglosphere.
It has been in the past, though. Chavez saved Cuba from just such a slow-rolling famine when he started shoveling oil money at the Cubans upon coming to power.
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