This is the coolest photo ever.

Communism ate my homework.

Absolutely. I love the way you put it.

With the election of 2024, similarly to that of 1876, we have a New Redeemer movement in charge of our political apparatus. This pattern of redress and retrenchment is observable across U.S. history.

History can and is repeating itself.

What has followed this previous era of progress is akin to the Redeemers of the late 1800s. MAGA has launched a war on critical race theory, affirmative action, “wokeness,” and what they call “radical gender ideology.”

We had our own era of social advancement with the Obama administration, the rise of Black Lives Matter, the widespread adoption of DEI, and the broader societal shift leftward toward anti-racism into the mainstream.

In response to the Reconstruction Era as a racial justice project, white supremacists reacted with the ‘Redemption Era’ involving the rolling back of social progress and the codification of Jim and Juan Crow.

Thus, while I absolutely agree that more should be done fiscally toward welfare issues, cutting away space funding is not the answer.

We can have a robust NASA budget and a robust welfare budget. This is not a zero-sum game.

The U.S. Dollar is a publicly monopolized fiat. The federal government is not deciding to spend X% of available funds in America’s bank account on space instead of welfare.

In other words, Uncle Sam can’t run out of money.

Exactly.

The conditions laid out in the LinkedIn post describing hollow institutions are absolutely salient. I like when the article said “Institutions, like people, go through developmental stages, and sometimes they need to shed their illusions before they can grow into something wiser.”

Recognizing that authoritarian regimes can dismantle democracies through the democratic system itself means being better aware of the flexibility and insidious nature of Trumpism – a movement that can still be overcome if we act with the gravity of the problem.

It's critical to recognize that twenty-first-century fascism is distinct from the previous century; it may be hard to see it in its full capacity, but the grasp that autocracy has on our society cannot be understated or trivialized.