As the title implies, the article is 100% devoted to dishing dirt on Mr. T. & Co.
It'd have been nice if the article noted how many big (bad) changes has been announced by the White House...then reversed course on. Generally after serious pushback, or (presumed) grown-ups pointing out the major downsides of the change.
The article might even have suggested things which readers could physically do, if they cared to add to the pushback.
Trump or no Trump - if both the citizens' and journalists' ideal for "citizen participation", when things are going badly wrong, amounts to "keep clicking on articles and quietly emoting over those" ... well, then you don't have much of a democracy.
They don't just emote. They also vote, eventually.
Unfortunately, a lot don't vote, in part because everybody else has been emoting so loudly that that don't want to get involved.
And worse, that "vote, eventually" has led us to be pretty complacent about what happens between elections. The social compact has us vote every couple of years then just go about our business, because too much participation is unwieldy. That's fine, until you're undergoing a real-live coup, and you're stuck waiting to see if elections are even gonna happen.
I just don't see people getting up in arms (figuratively) over Direct File. For the people who didn't vote for this administration, it's more evidence of what they already knew. For those who did, it's a small nudge in the direction of "maybe that wasn't a good idea", but only a small one.
As the title implies, the article is 100% devoted to dishing dirt on Mr. T. & Co.
It'd have been nice if the article noted how many big (bad) changes has been announced by the White House...then reversed course on. Generally after serious pushback, or (presumed) grown-ups pointing out the major downsides of the change.
The article might even have suggested things which readers could physically do, if they cared to add to the pushback.
Trump or no Trump - if both the citizens' and journalists' ideal for "citizen participation", when things are going badly wrong, amounts to "keep clicking on articles and quietly emoting over those" ... well, then you don't have much of a democracy.
They don't just emote. They also vote, eventually.
Unfortunately, a lot don't vote, in part because everybody else has been emoting so loudly that that don't want to get involved.
And worse, that "vote, eventually" has led us to be pretty complacent about what happens between elections. The social compact has us vote every couple of years then just go about our business, because too much participation is unwieldy. That's fine, until you're undergoing a real-live coup, and you're stuck waiting to see if elections are even gonna happen.
I just don't see people getting up in arms (figuratively) over Direct File. For the people who didn't vote for this administration, it's more evidence of what they already knew. For those who did, it's a small nudge in the direction of "maybe that wasn't a good idea", but only a small one.