A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
it’s the two santas cycle. republicans make everything worse for everyone. democrats, instead of working to undo the harm, put in stop gap measures to mitigate the harm establishing a new, worse, status-quo different from the one before the republicans made everything worse. nothing is new, and this is how the overton window always shifts rightward. also the two santas cycle and the ratchet problem are two ways of describing the same thing
it’s the two santas cycle. republicans make everything worse for everyone. democrats, instead of working to undo the harm, put in stop gap measures to mitigate the harm establishing a new, worse, status-quo different from the one before the republicans made everything worse. nothing is new, and this is how the overton window always shifts rightward. also the two santas cycle and the ratchet problem are two ways of describing the same thing