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Please stop. The more we play this tit-for-tat game of political point scoring, the more it causes the whole system to degenerate. It is corrupting every face
by chroem- 6y ago
Please stop. The more we play this tit-for-tat game of political point scoring, the more it causes the whole system to degenerate. It is corrupting every facet of our society, to the point at which we're no longer able to be objective about life and death matters like the current pandemic.
- hoorayimhelping 6y agoYou stop. Stop using $current_panic to justify trampling the parts of the constitution and the parts of the system you don't like. These are legitimate questions that need to be answered or we'll just be in a worse place in the future. It's so transparent; any time there's some crisis, whether it's terrorism or guns or drugs or a pandemic, there are always people calling for us to ignore the actual issues of our system and ram some "fix" through because this time, no seriously, this time it's life or death and we have to act.
- chroem- 6y ago? I'm largely agreeing with you. My only point is that we shouldn't allow courts and corporations to become politicized.
- scarface74 6y agoIsn’t it a little - like 200+ years - late for that?
- chroem- 6y agoWe're approaching levels of hyperpartisanship not seen since the civil war. I don't think this is a healthy state of being for our country.
- scarface74 6y agoYou think we all got together and sung Kum Bah Yah after the Civil War? Are you forgetting about the segregation? The Civil Rights Movement? Vietnam?
- ravenstine 6y agoAre you arguing that there haven't been varying levels of unity and partisanship within American history?
- scarface74 6y agoAs long as you ignore minorities and/or non-straight people.
- scarface74 6y agoNo I’m just amazed that people are willing to give government more power - the same government who would like nothing more than to have more power to intrude on people’s life.
- koheripbal 6y agoWe're advocating moving this power from massive corporations to the government, because at least the government has some accountability, whereas Google has NONE.
- scarface74 6y agoWhere is this accountability? The Senate by design has two senators regardless of the population of the state, meaning that if you live in a more populous state, you have less voting power than people living in the flyover states. The electoral college also biases the Presidential election to less populous states. Not to mention even in the House of Representatives the ratio between the parties doesn’t match the popular vote because of gerrymandering. How “accountable” are judges with lifetime appointments? Google is accountable. If they don’t give people what they want, people don’t give them money directly or indirectly.
- freedomben 6y agoIn the US, bills (new laws) have to pass both the Senate and the House, and the House is population based. It's a system of checks and balances to ensure that large states and small states don't control each other. In theory, if a particular change is favored by one set and not the other, then it doesn't pass. In practice it's a little murkier than that, but the way you presented it makes it sound like the system is just stacked to the benefit of the smaller states over the larger, when that is not the case.
- scarface74 6y agoMost regulations that are passed are not by law. They are passed by agencies like the FCC, FTC, FDA etc. So let’s say this mythical law is passed where you give the government more power over private business. The actual execution of the law is going to be carried out by unelected regulatory agencies where your main recourse is unelected judges.