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Bipartisan consensus is also a political process.

• ggm 9y ago
  Yes. One which is increasingly absent from western electoral democratic process. Oppositional politics is currently the preferred model even though it wedges capital investment in infrastructure. Are you bringing anything to this conversation or just trying to win an argument here?
  • azernik 8y ago
    krl02 made the point that all these things are political processes. You brought up the example of past bipartisan investments as a counterargument; my understanding of your point was "we've had bipartisan consensus on investments before, therefore there wasn't a political process going on around that". I was pointing out that this also is a political process, and that krl02's model of economic decision-making as a political process still stands. Were you trying to make some other point instead?
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    • ggm 8y ago
      All these things are political processes, but one is a trend which has swept the world. Oppositional politics has swept the world, and is impeding capital investment in public works, because it reduces to a high-tax/low-tax argument and favours low-tax reductionism, over state capital works. I was trying to make the point that if (like me) you want capital works, and national utility project investment, you don't want oppositional politics, you want the other model. I am not in denial that there is another, or other models. We had more overt bipartisan politics over a number of important things like housing, defence policy, capital works. We have gone to a more oppositional model even though this means less public utility outcomes happen.