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I think promoting politicians violates the "no politics" spirit but promoting/lobbying for specific legislation would not. Because once you start promoting ind
by bena 4y ago
I think promoting politicians violates the "no politics" spirit but promoting/lobbying for specific legislation would not.
Because once you start promoting individuals based on a single issue you agree with, you've become a mark. Your vote, your support is easy to get by simply paying the bare minimum lip service to the cause.
I could run for office on a platform of polluting the environment, defining abortion to include straight up murdering babies up to 9 months old, mandating each student carries a long gun with a minimum 20 round capacity, arson, rape, and pillaging. But as long as I'm also pro-crypto, Coinbase will support me. Which includes, if not implicit support for the rest of my positions, at least tolerance of them. Especially if I'm the only pro-crypto politician on the docket.
And as long as my pro-crypto stance is a minority one, I don't even have to be successful in advancing pro-crypto laws.
The net effect of the stance of supporting politicians on a single issue is that you wind up supporting horrible politicians and horrible people.
What one should do, and is the much harder path, is to petition your current politicians to adopt your views. To convince them that either enough people want it or that it would be good for the people and they will thank you for it by continuing to vote for you.
But still, "politics" is a lot like null, it's a greedy term. You really can't do "some politics" or "politics, but just in this one area". Once you introduce the term, you now have to be aware of it everywhere.