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Entire infrastructure of the US, already creaking, has had several sledgehammers gleefully taken to it by the corrupt ruling oligarchs--who have also disappeared, deported, or driven away a great many people with the institutional knowledge to fix things.
It won't get better soon.
Will this eventually be repaired? Maybe. It will take decades, and the body/injury count while that effort attempts to deal with the damage will be astronomical.
This is what "every billionaire is a policy failure" means. This is also what "we can't have a social safety net because a marginalised person might benefit" means--it would be one thing if bigots (rich or otherwise) only hurt themselves, but they spread the pain to as many innocent bystanders as possible.
Bigotry breeds corruption, corruption breeds abuse. And all of a sudden we have parasites in our lettuce, measles ravaging our loved ones, climate disasters, concentration camps, secret police, failures of critical infrastructure, and more.
This is the oligarchs' system *working as intended*.
The same policy failures that give us billionaires and orange dictators also give us crumbling roads and airports, people dying of completely preventable diseases, grinding poverty, and concentration camps.
We're at critical mass. The cascading failures are just getting started.
@lilithsaintcrow If the wheels are coming off this country, it's because the Republican party has spent decades loosening the lug nuts.
@swan_tower Exactly. Since Reagan, they’ve been attempting to hollow out and sell off the public good to line their own pockets. Greedy, nasty bigots, inflicting harm on the rest of us en masse.
The "AI" grift is also entering a late and very dangerous stage; lying, hallucinating chatbots have replaced a great many redundancies and proper oversight of load-bearing infrastructure.
One critical failure can start a cascade.