The public do forget (even egregious) things. I usually find that unfortunate, rather than the reverse, and tend to distrust those who count on public amnesia to obfuscate what they do. That's not a partisan, or even political - lots of corporations operate in the same manner - point, but I think it's a pretty good heuristic for sussing out who's being dodgy and who isn't.
> This is a nation built on egg-breaking.
Is too capacious. The USA is a nation based on "these truths [that] are self-evident", and (as the federal oath puts it) protecting and defending the Constitution.
That's not to say that egg-breaking can't be great, but it a) isn't usually to be commended for its own sake, but rather when it's to some specific and important purpose, and b) the "eggs" broken are not those in the preceding paragraph.
We break eggs into the known confines of a pan. We don't spray egg all over the place unless we want to end up with it on our face.
Even if it did make sense to "move fast and break things" inside working critical systems, doing so should surely be within the law and without going against the most basic of known security measures.
Damn, hoss, I wish this shit would just fall out of my stack.
Instead, I have a steady and ever-growing list of real and vicious shit that the US has done, going back to its formation.
You can pretend that everyone is just outraged because of some flavor of the month. You can pretend you're okay with breaking eggs because you don't think they are your eggs.
But at the end of the day some of us really don't like this stuff because we pay attention and have a memory- if you don't, then that's something you should work on.
