Serious question, how the fuck do you dislodge this sort of histrionic pessimism from the electorate’s mind? Who in the media or in politics is going to go to the mat with the utterly boring but mostly true claim that there’s really not *that* much corruption in the U.S. government? This isn’t some mild annoyance either, it contributes to imbeciles like Trump getting elected and encourages republicans do more DOGE type stuff.
>“Doge could have done good things,” says Valerie Ramey, an economist at the Hoover Institution, who generally argues for reducing US government spending. “But they sort of needed to take a year figuring out how the government operates before they start[ed] tearing it apart.”
It also contributes to this – dipshit dilettantes being put in charge of pulling apart something that is actually working a lot better than they realized.
Anyway, I think it’s quite clear that the main legacy of DOGE is not related to money really, it’s that they broke a bunch of agencies and adults will have to pick up the pieces.
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Archived version: [https://archive.fo/kbo55](https://archive.fo/kbo55).
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>Voters were also overwhelmingly in favour of a Doge-like initiative. On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, [roughly two-thirds](https://archive.fo/o/kbo55/https://apnorc.org/projects/although-support-for-doge-is-mixed-a-majority-believe-corruption-inefficiency-and-red-tape-are-major-problems/) said they agreed that the federal government was rife with corruption and inefficiencies, according to AP-NORC research. A long running survey showed Americans believed the state wasted [almost 60 cents](https://archive.fo/o/kbo55/https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-say-federal-govt-wastes-59-cents-dollar) of every dollar it spends.
Serious question, how the fuck do you dislodge this sort of histrionic pessimism from the electorate’s mind? Who in the media or in politics is going to go to the mat with the utterly boring but mostly true claim that there’s really not *that* much corruption in the U.S. government? This isn’t some mild annoyance either, it contributes to imbeciles like Trump getting elected and encourages republicans do more DOGE type stuff.
>“Doge could have done good things,” says Valerie Ramey, an economist at the Hoover Institution, who generally argues for reducing US government spending. “But they sort of needed to take a year figuring out how the government operates before they start[ed] tearing it apart.”
It also contributes to this – dipshit dilettantes being put in charge of pulling apart something that is actually working a lot better than they realized.
Anyway, I think it’s quite clear that the main legacy of DOGE is not related to money really, it’s that they broke a bunch of agencies and adults will have to pick up the pieces.