Here is a look at a musty concept called "The Technate" which according to some is the ultimate goal of the current administration and explains all the saber rattling with allies such as Canada, Mexico and the European Union. It imagines a single North American entity governed not by democracies but rather technocracies, a society governed by the whims of engineers and technocrats. It's deemed more efficiency and was deemed a more effective way to arrange society in the 1930's in the first Great Depression when it looked rather like the normal arrangements of society had fallen well short.
Now that creaky old notion might well be back.
If I imagined for one goddamn minute in our increasingly dangerous world that an intellectually honest technocracy as described by H.G. Wells and others was possible, I might buy in. (Even in his world though Wells had to contend with the demagogue.) But I have zero confidence in a felonious administration that has given us a vaccine-denier as the Human Health and Services, is working steadily apace to deconstruct the "Department of Education", is shadowed by a no-nothing, pretend "Tony Stark" who keeps blowing up rockets and wrecking planes just to keep himself out of jail, and puts forth a tariff plan that seems to have been cobbled together in the last moments with bizarro-world math! Is a true meritocracy possible under that guidance? Of course not. We are led by narcissists and man-children who look on other people as mere props in their much more important life story.
Let's work to bring back and improved version of our once defective, but still at least nominal democratic republic instead.
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