Amateurs

I spent the last week not looking at the news, for the most part, and this was done intentionally. I avoided the breathless hype of post-Oscar ridiculousness, and didn’t come anywhere near video or audio clips of Trump’s State of the Union speech, or whatever people were calling it.

It was nice to take a break from the constant hum of frivolous and ugly news.

It seems the best possible face one could put on what we’re witnessing now is an administration hellbent on cutting waste in government spending. DOGE, eh? Efficiency, you say? Seems more like a cover for a complete gutting of the institutions that have served us well for a long time. No doubt, there may be some glut and questionable spending in a sprawling bureaucracy, but it seems in a rational world there would be a bit more evaluating and number crunching before this wholesale evisceration commenced.

What we’re watching now is the wanton collapse of a system of governance. There has been no scalpel, just a wrecking ball and explosives, and to what end?

Once the destruction is complete, what then?

I bet they know, and I bet most of us won’t like it. It has little to do with efficiency or streamlining or responsiveness to need. Or justice.

They appear not to care if the world burns.