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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2017-06-14 06:38 pm

[ SECRET POST #3815 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3815 ⌋

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Re: Good News Though

(Anonymous) 2017-06-15 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
It is worse. At least with Chernobyl the USSR could claim it was a technical fuckup and they were trying to contain it even before the veil of secrecy was blown. Flint is a failure of the kind of low tax, low regulation, neo-capitalist ideology in a way that cannot be explained by mere technical fuck ups on a local level. Admitting it failed so hard it required wiping out a whole city and starting over, well that is a failure of the whole modern American ideology. It would be a definite admission that everything we've been doing was wrong, that we were wrong, that a radical rethink regarding political ideology on the level of the restructuring of the USSR itself, was necessary in America.

Can you imagine anyone ever admitting America was just that wrong, because America has this sort of divine mandate to always be in the right. Too many people have never been taught how to be wrong (and learning how to handle being wrong is a skill that does need to be taught to people if they are to learn how to handle it) and how to accept that their world view doesn't work.

Re: Good News Though

(Anonymous) 2017-06-15 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
The Flint water crisis happened not because of "modern American ideology" but because the state of Michigan feared municipal/school district bankruptcies so much that the governor was given the power (by the legislature) to install temporary dictators. That is/was definitely not normal.