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> Compromise is reached in quiet, safe places. Politicians make bombastic statements for their base and donors, and then go behind closed doors to negotiate. T
by nordsieck 3y ago
> Compromise is reached in quiet, safe places. Politicians make bombastic statements for their base and donors, and then go behind closed doors to negotiate.
That may be. But corruption also festers in quiet safe places. It's not clear to me that the the tradeoff is worth it.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> corruption also festers in quiet safe places. It's not clear to me that the the tradeoff is worth it. Public legislating, private bargaining [1]. This keeps substantive deliberation in the public domain while the horse trading, the job republics delegate to elected representatives, has a limited space within which it can efficiently engage. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36037530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36037530