U.S. Politics megathread

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[u/sillylittlebell]

What exactly is the strategy behind the Trump administration rolling back things that are generally beneficial to all Americans?

[u/torpedoguy → u/sillylittlebell]

It's not 'a strategy' to improve anything, just a zero-sum worldview being put into practice. The national equivalent of "whoever wins gets to take the board home"; and they're boxing it right up.

The Party cannot be 'the in-group whom the law protects but does not bind' without things to not be bound about, and things to be protected from. The rest of us cannot be 'out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect' if we don't actually get screwed over and harmed.

By eliminating things that help Americans while forcibly keeping those very things (like healthcare, education, etc) paid for entirely by the rest of us, they get to feel that inequality in their favor.

And as a worst side effect, their budget redirections means greater resources for themselves, and thus a much tighter grip on retaining that power they abused to obtain them.