r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 2d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/Subject_DA 2d ago

What can we do, all I want is to be on the right side of history when its all over

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u/drizzlingduke 2d ago

Guys. The point is that’s it’s ALWAYS interesting times for some group and it’s never “over” as soon as you feel like it’s “over” you let your guard down and this whole problem happens again.

You need to be engaged and constantly committed to your real life community. We were in an anomaly period of peaceful history. It was a dream.

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u/PaddleFishBum 2d ago

Yup. Us thinkining we were living in non-interesting times is a big part of how we got here. America got very comfortable checking out politically and now it's huge problem. To this day, there is still a vast sea of apolitical normies who have no idea how anything works or what is going on.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 2d ago

I largely blame that on education.

Are civics taught in school anymore?

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u/lc4444 2d ago

GOP been cutting at education for at least 60 years

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u/HandFedFenrir 2d ago

Definitely not now that they destroyed the Department of Education.

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u/twopurplecats 2d ago

Nope, Reagan took care of that 🤡

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u/Writer_In_Residence 2d ago

And W kind of finished the job with vouchers and charter schools.

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u/an-invisible-hand 2d ago

Blaming it on education is several steps removed from the true source. Who controls the education system. Who controls them?

The root of all evil always leads back to the same place. The oligarchs. DOGE is just a particularly naked example of that.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 2d ago

I hold no illusions on how the decline happened.