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I feel like I've increasingly seen "pass legislation in bad faith that you know will be struck down" as a conservative legislative tactic (see recent abortion l

• lisper 5y ago
  The consequence is supposed to be that you get voted out of office. Unfortunately, there seems to be quite an audience for bad-faith politics nowadays. And I don't think this is unique to conservatives, and I also don't think that your examples are good ones. It seems increasingly clear that anti-abortion bills, for example, are not being passed in bad faith. The Republican Party really is intent on delivering on its promise to overturn Roe, and it looks like they are going to succeed. On the other side, I'm pretty disappointed in how Merrick Garland is handling the events of Jan 6, 20201. But we should probably shut this conversation down because we are getting very close to violating the HN prohibition on political discussions (if we have not already crossed that line).
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > the HN prohibition on political discussions While there was a brief experiment with such a prohibition, the planned end date was a long time ago (and the experiment was aborted early.)