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It’s almost like one side doesn’t have a monopoly on effective policy. It’s too bad we can’t have laws based on efficacy, regardless of which side of the aisle

It’s almost like one side doesn’t have a monopoly on effective policy. It’s too bad we can’t have laws based on efficacy, regardless of which side of the aisle they come from. “If either the left wing or right wing got control of this country, it would fly around in circles.” Most frustrating of all to me is the Enlightened Centrism memes which equate a rational middle position with agreeing exactly half with both sides and poisons the well for anyone trying to find policy that is effective, regardless of its origin.

api 4y ago
I've been saying for years that we need an "American competence party" that takes a centrist position on culture war issues and focuses on actually fixing things in the real world. A big part of why our politics is so broken is the culture war. It's a godsend to incompetent and corrupt politicians since it allows them to pay lip service or toss low-cost political bones to their "base" while freeing them from the need to do anything hard or get any real results. With the culture war politicians don't have to be competent or earn your vote. Works for both "red" and "blue" sides. There are terribly run places with all-Republican single party rule. Unfortunately the trend has been toward hyper-polarization on culture war issues, making it even harder to select for competence over "correct" cultural alignment with the base. The right likes to bash political correctness but they have their own form of it as well as their own "safe spaces" where only their speech is tolerated. It's definitely a both-sides problem.
- wussboy 4y ago
  Have you read this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_Science_of_Prediction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_... I found it fascinating and I think would form the base of your "American Competence Party". Sign me up!

api 4y ago

I've been saying for years that we need an "American competence party" that takes a centrist position on culture war issues and focuses on actually fixing things in the real world. A big part of why our politics is so broken is the culture war. It's a godsend to incompetent and corrupt politicians since it allows them to pay lip service or toss low-cost political bones to their "base" while freeing them from the need to do anything hard or get any real results. With the culture war politicians don't have to be competent or earn your vote. Works for both "red" and "blue" sides. There are terribly run places with all-Republican single party rule. Unfortunately the trend has been toward hyper-polarization on culture war issues, making it even harder to select for competence over "correct" cultural alignment with the base. The right likes to bash political correctness but they have their own form of it as well as their own "safe spaces" where only their speech is tolerated. It's definitely a both-sides problem.

wussboy 4y ago
Have you read this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_Science_of_Prediction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_... I found it fascinating and I think would form the base of your "American Competence Party". Sign me up!