Do you talk about this on your blog anywhere?

Tomato?

The cost and the infrastructure required to build the dystopian version of this people have in their head is very different than how it would work in an an American or UK context.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here - I’m not necessarily convinced this is that bad of a thing as a passive feature of society as opposed to an active one.

There was a roughly ~6 week period from late January 2020 to the NBA cancellation in March where if you were really plugged in on Twitter, you knew there was about to be a huge disaster, but most people had no idea. This is kind of like that

Tbh shifting the inspector general offices out of the executive and into congress (or even the courts) would both make sense and i think be allowed constitutionally