Weaponized non-governance and political impotence

Nothing Is Ever Going Back To Normal by Anya Kamenetz “By ‘normal-feeling’ I mean not utopia, but these two specific beliefs: “There are adults in charge of the most powerful country in the world and they are mostly doing their best “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice*. Bad things are naturally going to get better “This is what I mean by ‘normal’. This is what we are not going back to.” See also: Back to “normal” + Weaponized Sacredness by Sarah Perry (Ribbonfarm) “[A]s an ordinary and regular aspect of the legislative process, ambiguity is intentionally and knowingly written into legislation, because any of the more specific versions of the law would not be able to pass a vote. Legislators decide that a decision should be made, but fail to actually make the pointed-at decision, instead delegating it to an entity only very indirectly touched by public or private opinion, or by democratic representation.” See also: Midlife rage “[T]he preference falsification model…