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> Plus, conservative people tend to be older The article says: > However, the most promising of these, a mission named OSIRIS-Apex that breathes new life into
by diggan 1y ago
> Plus, conservative people tend to be older
The article says:
> However, the most promising of these, a mission named OSIRIS-Apex that breathes new life into an old spacecraft that otherwise would drift into oblivion, is slated for cancellation by the Trump White House's budget for fiscal year 2026.
I won't claim to be an expert in US politics, but doesn't budget bills need to be approved/passed by both the house, senate and various committees? And then members of both parties, including every Democrat, still get to vote at it in multiple stages, so once it's actually implemented, it's by design kind of approved by both sides?
In the end, old people from both sides seem to have zero regard for future generations, and from the outside, those old people seem to exist and be in power on both sides of your limited political spectrum.
- throwaway290 1y ago> In the end, old people from both sides seem to have zero regard for future generations, and from the outside, those old people seem to exist and be in power on both sides of your limited political spectrum. the argument is that older people are more conservative (represented by Republicans who cancel this NASA initiative) and younger are more progressive (represented by Democrats)
- ta1243 1y ago> including every Democrat, still get to vote at it in multiple stages, so once it's actually implemented, it's by design kind of approved by both sides? If you have 51% republican and 49% democrat and every republican says yes and every democrat says no, then it's not approved by both sides. That's how democracy works in a two-choice system, it's not a consensus. Unless by approval you mean "this isn't worth a civil war"
- nativeit 1y agoWell these days it seems who uses which bathrooms and/or how enthusiastically natural born citizens get to openly abuse everyone else are both issues approaching armed conflict, so that sounds downright utopian.
- baggachipz 1y ago> but doesn't budget bills need to be approved/passed by both the house, senate and various committees? When one party controls all three branches of government, and the executive branch does what they want regardless of laws (which aren't enforced because said party controls the enforcers as well), you get anything but a consensus.
- diggan 1y agoSo then you're saying the US stopped being a representative democracy, because one party controls three branches of government? If it still is considered a representative democracy, then the bill is actually passed with some sort of democratic consensus, even though you (the voter) might not agree with the results. Besides, even if "one party controls all three branches of government" is true, they still don't control all the involved committees, do they?
- baggachipz 1y agoMore so that the executive branch does what it wants regardless of laws, and the other two branches which are supposed to serve as a check on absolute power refuse to do anything. They also control whatever committees they want. See: DOGE.
- diggan 1y agoThen you're effectively saying that democracy is dead in the US?