A while ago, I wanted to write something on the nature of governing. I would have mused on my ideal model... that kind of thing.
Last night while watching news about some of the latest horrors of the Trump administration, and hearing it referred to as "the government," I realized that it's wrong to refer to the leadership of the current infrastructure in Washington, D.C. as government. It's a regime, a dictatorship (wannabe, but still) — not a government in the sense that we have used the word in the decades of my life or the decades before that.
Governing means something more than riding roughshod over the vast majority of people, making plans for them to die early or very soon.
The root word of govern is the Greek kybernan, to steer or pilot a ship... to guide. Logically, that means it should not be about crashing the ship, making it sink, or killing its occupants.
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RFK Jr and Mehmet Oz are pro-illness, pro-death, anti-science, anti-human. The only way to explain this administration’s agenda is as culling medicare recipients.
Allison Adato @editgirlnyc.bsky.social
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