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What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure? It's a waste of time that could be better spent elsewher
by cvsh 9y ago
What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure?
It's a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere. The only point of this is to make Maloney more marketable in the next election.
- lurker456 9y agomakes it more clear who is responsible. it's not the bureaucrats.
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- freeone3000 9y agoThat's a pretty big point.
- totalZero 9y agoEven if the legislation is doomed, the overall battle between policymakers is not over. The fight to save Net Neutrality will benefit from high-visibility attempts to bring the issue to light.
- RandomInteger4 9y agoIt's a signal. Signals are important even if futile. Without such signals, we can only make assumptions concerning where the minority party stands on whichever issue.
- curun1r 9y agoIt also forces Congresspeople to publicly take a stand and not just sit idly by and let Ajit Pai do the dirty work. Getting people on the record is important anytime something is being done at the behest of a limited number of corporations and contrary to the interests of their constituents.
- wmf 9y agoIt's less of a waste of time that encouraging people to call the FCC, which a lot of people are doing.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure? The point is that political efforts that seem “obviously doomed to failure” sometimes turn out to win, because unexpected groundswells of support force people who would not have supported them in the conditions that seemed likely at the time the measure was introduced to reconsider, either on the merits or based on their own political self-interest.