I mean, this is sort of a live by the blade die by the blade thing, no? If you’re a sociocultural group heavily aligned with one party that sorts into particular sectors of government work then you’re gonna suffer disproportionately as a mechanical function of changes in party control and distribution of resources by party priority. On the occasion that Democratic city/county/state machines were defeated historically, it hit irish men very heavily for instance. Same for republican machines, and they’re allies.
You can argue the cuts to the federal workforce are bad, and id agree the broadly are, but the social cultural grouping of those effected is not the thing that matters and whingeing about it Is exactly the kind poor message discipline that hurts us libs. What matters is loss of programs, expertise, and governmental efficiency, thems the points to press, not the particularistic distribution of job losses…
This is exactly kind of thinking that leads to whingeing about the effects of deeply good things like automation of transit systems or efficiency improvements in social welfare being bad because of which groups are overepresented in that works losing relative employment instead of championing the broad efficiency gains that allow for cheaper services to all and the bedrock of progress.
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I mean, this is sort of a live by the blade die by the blade thing, no? If you’re a sociocultural group heavily aligned with one party that sorts into particular sectors of government work then you’re gonna suffer disproportionately as a mechanical function of changes in party control and distribution of resources by party priority. On the occasion that Democratic city/county/state machines were defeated historically, it hit irish men very heavily for instance. Same for republican machines, and they’re allies.
You can argue the cuts to the federal workforce are bad, and id agree the broadly are, but the social cultural grouping of those effected is not the thing that matters and whingeing about it Is exactly the kind poor message discipline that hurts us libs. What matters is loss of programs, expertise, and governmental efficiency, thems the points to press, not the particularistic distribution of job losses…
This is exactly kind of thinking that leads to whingeing about the effects of deeply good things like automation of transit systems or efficiency improvements in social welfare being bad because of which groups are overepresented in that works losing relative employment instead of championing the broad efficiency gains that allow for cheaper services to all and the bedrock of progress.