Today the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed the version of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill returned to them by the GOP-controlled Senate. It is in fact One Big Billionaire Boondoggle. It is hard to overstate the damage it will do—to health, to clean energy, to civil rights, to common decency, to communal kindness …
To those who subscribe to the pendulum theory of US politics (“This too shall pass,” “We’ll fix it,” etc.): what if they have managed to destroy the pendulum? What if they have snipped the wire (i.e., the judiciary) and we are careening off into Daddy-Plutocrat Land?
Or maybe this is the truer model of US politics:
Animation of a double compound pendulum showing chaotic behavior. (Via Wikipedia)
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks the pendulum may be broken.
Better link for the “Daddy” thing.