I knew the autocrats would try to destroy any and all institutions that threaten to expose them for the grifters they are. Think journalism, education, science. I knew they'd overcharge the taxpayers for fixing non-existent problems (an you say, "immigrant invasion"?) so they can channel the money to the oligarch friends. You didn't have to be Hannah Arendt or Masha Gessen to see all that coming. Autocrats gonna do what autocrats do. MAGA can only survive if voters are ill-informed and lack access to accurate information. Straight out of the authoritarian playbook; see Orwell, George.
I get that the current regime hates foreigners, the highly educated and generally, facts. What has surprised me are the current crop of assaults on things hunters, who I would have thought a core segment of their constituency, care about. I guess I should have presumed a real estate developer from Queens wouldn't care about public land or wildlife conservation, but I'm nevertheless stunned by the brazen attempt to demolish the American model of wildlife conservation, which has been the envy of the world for a century.
First there were not one but TWO attempts by the GOP to steal our public land from the People, no doubt to provide a few lovely vacation ranches around Tahoe and Yosemite for select GOP mega-donors and begin the third world type exploitation of our common natural resources. Again; real estate developer. Both attempts were beaten back, largely by conservatives from Western states.
But now come the following:
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/looming-federal-cuts-threaten-bird-banding-lab-cornerstone-avian-science (note that the USGS page about "bird science" has been deleted; ; see Orwell, George). "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/usda-revokes-roadless-rule-nationwide/
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/executive-order-mining-federal-public-lands/
So if so-called "Conservatives" aren't conserving our public lands or wildlife, what exactly are they conserving? Is it really only white pride? The interests of the Oligarchy?
They're certainly not fiscally conservative. They're not interested in conserving the health and well-being of the citizenry or the world's human population. US influence and prestige? Nope.
Now that we're solidly in the grip of an autocratic regime modeled on the likes of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, it's becoming obvious that Cheeto Mussolini doesn't care about America at all, beyond what he can steal from it. So, what are we gonna do about it?
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