#Project2025 recommendations concerning #health are dispersed among the introduction and various chapters. Together, they argue for an abandonment of the government’s role in promoting #publichealth for American children and adults”
“Schismogenesis isn't a great tactic. It would be far better if we had a set of institutions we could all largely trust – if the black boxes where expert debate took place were sturdy, rectilinear and sharp-cornered.
But they're not. They're just not. Our regulatory process sucks”
“It's a function of #corruption”
“the terrifying epistemological crisis of trying to make good choices in an age of institutions that can't be trusted” https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/ by @pluralistic
@paninid Then I remain in the dark as to the nature of your subsequent comment because there's no way I can answer for Runyan and whatever it may have been that he called you, a thing I still see missing from your citation.
As Alan Bean notes, in his new book Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, David Gushee draws attention to the way in which the reactionary authoritarian Christianity of white Christian nationalism in the US is also manifest in other nations now, including Hungary, Russia, and Brazil.
Binding these disparate national movements together is the following:
The #WashingtonPost’s sympathetic look into the roots of new #SpeakeroftheHouse who said “You know, we don’t live in a democracy” but a “biblical” republic in 2016
How To Deradicalize a Movement
by Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
"As you can see, Marotta’s antisemitism is inclusive. He draws on the past with some old Christian anti-Jewish theology (Jewish as an adjective in the phrase “Jewish Justice”), but he also serves up a perverse misapplication of critical theory which he clumsily attempts to weaponize against an entire people’s identity."