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> But often times nobody cares. It's not that nobody cares, it's that the people with the power to both pass regulation and enforce that regulation aren't affe
by judge2020 4y ago
> But often times nobody cares.
It's not that nobody cares, it's that the people with the power to both pass regulation and enforce that regulation aren't affected when they don't use their power to help the people (even if the majority of their constituents/voters support it).
While you could put this all on the evil politicians, it could also be linked to two things: first, the culture of the country (countries) as a whole, in that voters aren't willing to give up voting for someone that doesn't protect them from harm in their daily life (or otherwise overthrow such politicians), and second, because there are a limited number of politicians they can vote for, meaning that both/all of the candidates on the ballot can be disinterested in solving the problems at hand. The only real solutions I see to this are things like ranked choice voting, or more likely, more laws and regulations being represented by having voters vote on those laws separately from their candidates.
Given this is all intrinsically linked to politics, the only real solution us consumers can adopt is by aligning ourselves with products and services (or people) that solve the problems we care about via either logistical or technological means. For example, we can't trust Facebook not to track us, so we enlist browsers and extensions to block ads. Importantly, we can't trust the government to enforce "if you hack a computer you go to jail" so we enlist multi-billion (or trillion) dollar companies to keep us safe, since we know their incentives (money) align with our need for safe and useful
products and services that prevent bad things from happening in the first place.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI kinda believed in things like ranked choice voting before but lately it seems like these just create more situations where people don't trust the outcome of elections.
- giantg2 4y agoIt seems the average person today is just looking for any excuse to complain. Someone can propose that ranked choice voting is flawed (some implementations might legitimately be) and a drove of people will latch onto that without even understanding it. One of the main problems is that the party basically tells politicians how to vote on a bill. Very few break with party lines. We're seeing a relative lot of that deviation on the Republican side, although maybe not in a good way. The main problem in this area is that you essentially end up with 2 diametrically opposed positions with no in between. Even the stuff pitched as a middle ground is usually just step 1 in a side's plan and doesn't legitimately address/protect the other side.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThe worst thing is one party rule in places like Russia, China, the UK and New York. Any of those places would be better off with two extreme parties that fight like cats and dogs.
- giantg2 4y agoEven leaving out politics you still have issue with people not caring. Look at judges. I've personally witnessed judges and magistrates saying things that aren't true. Like thinking you're calling them prejudiced when asking to dismiss with prejudice. Or explaining that a trial de novo is a "complete do-over" and then turning around and saying they won't hear a motion because there's no record of it happening at the prior trial. I've even had a lawyer say that civil rights were violated but that the judges don't care and will see your case as a nuisance unless there was serious bodily injury or severe financial impact. The politicians passed these laws. The people think they have these rights. The judges don't care. So the minority affected realize that they don't have those rights while the rest live in ignorant bliss.
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