• clovernorth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Rhetoric aside, it is chilling that a sitting Senator would take such a step and we should all be concerned about what this could lead to.

    Today it’s Tuberville’s hold on nominations for non-military political reasons. Maybe tomorrow it’s the Armed Services committees treating these appointments and promotions like judicial nominations. All of a sudden, you effectively have de-facto political appointments for in-the-ranks military leadership, and U.S. politics is far scarier than it’s ever been.

    Sure, I’m committing a slippery slope fallacy here, but given the track record of our political leaders to cause institutional decay with zero-sum game partisan politics, I don’t think it’s a stretch.

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      1 year ago

      … given the track record of our political leaders to cause institutional decay with zero-sum game partisan politics, …

      One side of the political aisle is well known for open obstruction. The other is not.