reopening - politiglue https://www.politiglue.io Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:59:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 This Was a Choice https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-redesign-choice/ https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-redesign-choice/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:56:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=569 The excuses are gone The excuses are gone, by now, reopening without redesign isn’t confusion or improvisation. It is policy. What is happening now is no longer confusion or shock or improvisation. It is not the fog of an unprecedented moment. We know what this virus does. We know how it spreads. We know which […]

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-redesign-choice/feed/ 0 The Restart Is the Risk https://www.politiglue.io/the-restart-is-the-risk/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-restart-is-the-risk/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:50:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=569 Restarting has become the goal, even though the systems being restarted have not been repaired. Speed is replacing caution, and risk is being reframed as resolve.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-restart-is-the-risk/feed/ 0 The Pause Is Not the Repair https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-is-not-the-repair/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-is-not-the-repair/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:50:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=569 A global slowdown feels meaningful, but pausing a system is not the same as repairing it. What comes next matters more than the stop itself.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-pause-is-not-the-repair/feed/ 0 The Great Reopening Performance https://www.politiglue.io/the-great-reopening-performance/ https://www.politiglue.io/the-great-reopening-performance/#respond Wed, 20 May 2020 16:20:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=577 May 2020 didn’t just reopen businesses, it staged a declaration: we’re done with this. But reopening became symbols and vibes instead of systems, pushing enforcement downhill to the lowest-paid workers and turning public health into identity theatre. A performance asks you to believe. A plan asks you to trust, and trust has to be earned.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/the-great-reopening-performance/feed/ 0 Reopening Without Repair https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-repair/ https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-repair/#respond Fri, 08 May 2020 15:47:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=569 The push to reopen is real, and so is the pain behind it. But reopening is not a switch. It is an allocation of risk, and without repair, it becomes a transfer of burden onto the least protected. Rules that aren’t enforced become theatre, trust becomes the second casualty, and “freedom” turns into a slogan that excuses avoidable harm.

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]]> https://www.politiglue.io/reopening-without-repair/feed/ 0 How Politics Slowed Down Before It Broke https://www.politiglue.io/how-politics-slowed-down-before-it-broke/ https://www.politiglue.io/how-politics-slowed-down-before-it-broke/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2019 04:07:00 +0000 https://www.politiglue.io/?p=696 An explainer on why political systems felt increasingly slow and unresponsive in late 2019, and how institutional drag shaped public trust before crisis hit.

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