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You two are adorable!
Also, I had these (in harvest gold & avocado)!
Orange butterfly wall decoration from 1970s
December 22, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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One way to understand a lot of changes in American life is that politicians are removing autonomy from the professions, such those working in education, or health care, because they perceive professional knowledge to be a threat. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Professionals in education, health care, and the media have some incentives to be responsive to their clients. In some cases they may err, or seek to exploit the public, and the government has a critical role in regulating them. Finding the right balance between legitimate democratic control and professional guidance is a never-ending job. The DeSantis approach does not try to find a balance, but instead empowers ideologues to second-guess the professionals on matters of professional expertise, to scare them into using ideological criteria on what to teach in the classroom, how to treat a patient, or report the news. Professional competence provides a justification for autonomy, a means of limiting state control. The erosion of this autonomy has real costs. It reduces sources of dissent when expert knowledge contradicts the dictates of the ruling party, and undermines the quality of services for the public. This is why would-be authoritarians seek to stifle and control such autonomy.
December 19, 2024 at 10:36 PM