It's really astonishing to me how quickly we all (or, more specifically, Congress, which as done absolutely nothing to push back) accept that this is just how things work now.

Like the president deciding exactly where business investment should be made is the definition of a government command economy (remember that "Communism" bogeyman???), which used to be the antithesis of American economic policy (at least in theory), and now we're just all like "OK, cool". It's so sickening.

Right here on HN you'll find people that are arguing both that this is good and that the conservatives are rightfully attacking the federal institutions because the state got 'too big'. And in some cases those are the very same people!

At this point the debate has been reduced to which flavor of central planning you prefer or dislike least.

Really goes to show how full of hot air all the pearl clutching and hand wringing was over any Biden policy.

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