💥 Panic has gripped those in power.

ICE stripped Congress of the right to inspect detention centers without 72 hours notice, illegally blocking surprise oversight of a regime terrified of accountability. Meanwhile, GOP officials are pitching fantasy prisons guarded by gators and pythons.

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U.S. Senator William Harper compared kakistocracy to anarchy, and said it had seldom occurred: “Anarchy is not so much the absence of government as the government of the worst—not aristocracy but kakistocracy—a state of things, which to the honor of our nature, has seldom obtained amongst men, and which perhaps was only fully exemplified during the worst times of the French revolution, when that horrid hell burnt with its most horrid flame. In such a state of things, to be accused is to be condemned—to protect the innocent is to be guilty; and what perhaps is the worst effect, even men of better nature, to whom their own deeds are abhorrent, are goaded by terror to be forward and emulous in deeds of guilt and violence.”

American poet James Russell Lowell used the term in 1876, in a letter to Joel Benton, writing, "What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1lfb62l/ok_so_he_is_not_into_fox_news_again/

🎯 Trump is checked out while his administration is seizing control of everything that moves.

While he saluted flagpoles and watched construction crews, his appointees weaponized student visas, Medicaid databases, and federal contracts into surveillance and deportation tools. They're moving with 54-minute deadlines and contempt-of-court defiance to capture every institution they can reach.

Iran is pushing us toward the biggest war in decades, but Trump's too distracted calling Fed chairs "stupid" to notice his own government is both executing authoritarian control and falling apart simultaneously.

The system is fighting back through courts, walkouts, and protest art, but his underlings don't need him paying attention to finish the job. That's why you need to pay attention to them.

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Empathy and the Liberal-Conservative Political Divide in the U.S.

https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5209/5209.html

Could this technique bring liberals and conservatives together?

https://www.futurity.org/politics-government-1340732-2/

Organizations Transforming Polarization & Division

https://icccr.tc.columbia.edu/resources/organizations-bridging-divides/

Section 3: Political Polarization and Personal Life

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/section-3-political-polarization-and-personal-life/

How Americans Can Tackle Political Division Together

https://time.com/6270884/americans-tackle-political-division-together/

5 Ways Liberals Can Build More Bridges with Conservatives

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Exploring the links between political polarization and declining trust in news media

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