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Given that half the country loves the party that is anti-regulation, "small" government, I don't think you have your finger on the pulse of the nation, so to sp
by kelnos 2y ago
Given that half the country loves the party that is anti-regulation, "small" government, I don't think you have your finger on the pulse of the nation, so to speak.
Not only would many people in the US be against this on principle ("the feds should stop meddling", "the free market will sort it out"), but the companies in question would invest lots of money into propaganda that many, many people would fall for.
- briandear 2y agoI am a small government advocate. The problem with cable companies is that they enjoy near monopoly status. That’s not free market.
- FactKnower69 2y agoHahaha, what? The "Free Market" is when the government forcibly breaks up large firms? Incredible
- therealdrag0 2y agoWhat are you even responding to? Who said anything about breaking up firms?
- idle_zealot 2y agoMy interpretation is that most people supporting that party may have bought into deregulation rhetoric, but would vote for any specific regulation that curbs a behavior they personally dislike unless a more stout believer talked them out of it.
- hn_version_0023 2y agoThe people you’re referring to, aka Republican voters, are mainly being led around by the nose. To be more specific, it’s my view that they view politics as a team sport and as entertainment and don’t think through their positions. These people would be against maintaining their own lives if the Dems were for it.
- sitkack 2y agoI know a couple democrats that wear seatbelts, wash their hands and take the flu vaccine.
- kulahan 2y agoThe people he's referring to are probably best described as libertarian. "Republican" has been abused so much as a word (Democrat, too) that it's effectively useless to describe anything these days anyways. Case in point: you're using it here to describe people who are not particularly wise to propaganda, which has nothing to do with the word at all. You're probably referring to social conservatives, but it's always hard to tell if comments like these are meant to be a strawman on purpose or not.
- hn_version_0023 2y agoI am in fact referring to Republican voters.
- kulahan 2y agoThen you're strawmanning, because of course this has nothing to do with the Republican voters writ large. Nothing really does, because as I already stated, the word is meaningless now. It's just the vague "enemy".