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Trump administration to announce dismantling of much of Education Dept.
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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I think you're describing the plan, while I'm predicting the chimaera that will be born from conflicting politics. Billionaires have a plan but they aren't gods. How will the country exist when we're all sidelined and corporations import slaves? Will Palantir et al usher in a new paradigm? Is modern surveillance the eponymous straw on our backs? I just think that billionaires won't get what they want, and that they hit very hard, and the result of those two facts implies we're going to be beaten to within an inch of our lives.
Asking this to my good friends George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. They said it'll all blow over in another four score and seven years, and not to worry about it in the meantime.
I'd say its the padlock on the gate. A lot of people are (justifiably) quite paranoid as to how their actions and interests are being surveilled. A lot of police action has targeted activist groups, going straight back to the Nixon Era, and successfully disrupted local efforts to impose reforms democratically or through direct labor action.
Historically speaking, that's rarely been the case. They get what they want. But its often a Monkey's Paw, resulting in unintended consequences that send them scrambling to the next plan. In this case, flooding the US labor market with a bunch of lower paid foreign professionals and expecting them to supplant all the highly trained locals with title to much of the residential property in a tight housing market with rapidly increasing rents... I can read a whole host of downstream ramifications resulting from this decision.
At the same time, we've invested heavily in a policing system that runs roughshod over civil rights for even native born citizens. So he's going to import 600,000 obviously non-white people and put them right next door to several thousand ICE agents just tearing around town looking for anyone non-white to deport?
Seems like a recipe for disaster to me. But what do I know? I'm not a billionaire.