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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLast Night, [Redacted] Asked Congress for an Enabling Act
If you don't know the history of the Enabling Act of 1933, research it at your leisure.
Here's the quote:
In other words, he wants to implement a purge, government-wide, of anyone his appointees deem as insufficiently loyal or helpful.
Not only would this require rolling back more than a century of Civil Service reformation, it is the very essence of authoritarianism.
I cannot understand why every news organ in the country didn't headline with this.
But I think we each and every one of us need to phone our congresscritters NOW to tell them that such an Enabling Act would be neither Constitutional nor acceptable in a free country.
determinedly,
Bright
kentuck
(111,111 posts)That there is no one to hold him to account.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)TygrBright
(20,780 posts)But if his staff tell him (some vast number) of calls referred to this and DO NOT WANT it will not go unnoticed, even if he is a collaborator.
Call.
This is a camel's nose situation and the rest of the camel looks like a fucking gulag.
determinedly,
Bright
alarimer
(16,245 posts)I guess he means to fire people because of their politics. Which is not illegal, but would certainly be unsavory. I guess the way Trump would do it would violate civil service rules in any case.
"Undermine public trust" means not doing what Trump wants. So every scientist whose results contradict what Trumps wants to do would be out. Science as a public good would be forever ruined. Civil servants can and should be protected from that kind of political nonsense.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)to do that. For now, anyway.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)But it is certainly contrary to a functioning government run by professionals of all kinds. When people fear being fired for actions they take on the job, the agency ceases to function effectively.
By and large, most people who work for federal agencies should be experts in their fields. I think what Trump wants is a return to the old patronage system, which was so corrupt the government essentially didn't work.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)And as good an explanation of the rationale behind civil service as I've ever seen.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)passing the Koch Brothers Anti Union Legislation. Same verbiage used by Scott Walker a few years back.
For those who want the bottom line,Trump purposed a Right to Work National Law.
tblue37
(65,552 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,034 posts)Truman's Executive Order 9835 and what followed.
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avebury
(10,953 posts)That would mean that everyone in the Trump WH and his entire Cabinet would have to go.
iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)barbtries
(28,824 posts)but (and i think you'll be glad to hear this) this quote was one of the first i became aware of. i have already shared it on twitter. i think it is a call to end democracy as we know it in the USA and one person remarked, "This is Stephen Miller." yeah i can believe that.
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)But it was on the teleprompter because it appeals to >Redacted's< simplistic, dichotomous view of reality.
A dangerous combination: Stupid autocrat wannabe and accomplished behind-the-scenes manipulator.
disgustedly,
Bright
SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)just another method for Orange-Hitler to demand loyalty from Federal employees.
Disgusting, and probably illegal (if we had a Congress to call him on it).
not fooled
(5,807 posts)will bear fruit if no one comes to their defense.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That's another reason he wanted the VOTER DATA FROM ALL THE STATES.