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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This cannot happen.  [/quote]

Anything is on the table. Get real. Look at SK![/quote]

But it didn't work in SK. Yoon tried to declare martial law, the entire parliament voted to rescind it, he tried to ignore them, people started taking to the streets, Yoon backed down. The whole thing lasted a few hours.

On the one hand it's scary to watch that unfold but on the other hand it shows how democratic processes can operate to protect themselves by creating a framework by which people have a voice.

If Trump tries to shutter a whole agency without Congressional action it will immediately be tied up in the courts for years and simply won't happen. He would need Congress to pass legislation removing the agency's funding which is highly unlikely to happen even for something like CFPB -- once an agency is in place then people come to rely on it for things and Congress has to confront the actual consequences of denying voters resources they have come to rely on. Plus something like CFPB has almost no budget -- it's not actually worth cutting.

If you're at something like Department of Ed, even better -- they mostly just administer very popular grant programs and then do a small amount of policy making. Even if they tried to get rid of the agency it's unlikely they'd defund its operations -- they'd just transfer them back to HHS and other agencies that handled them before Ed was created in the 70s. Union contracts would make it incredibly hard for them to fire staff even if they technically dissolved the department -- you'd just transfer. It would suck but unless you are a political appointee or in one of the purely policy roles (of which there are few) then you are likely safe because the programs you work on are safe. They aren't going to stop Title 1 funds which benefit rural schools in red states enormously, for instance. And if you do happen to work in policy I think you could find a job at a think tank or with a teachers union or a variety of other orgs that work on education policy and then likely get rehired by the feds when a less stupid administration is in charge and they realize that work is actually valuable again.

The situation is not good but it's not dire. We can do this. But you have to not give up and you have to put your faith and trust in democratic systems that are older and tougher than people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. South Korea's democracy is only like 40 years old and look how well it stood up to tyranny! We can do this.[/quote]

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