Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Liberal Hivemind"
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Defamation is an area of the law that doesn't seem fair. I usually want to cancel the advantages politicians enjoy, but in the area of defamation, politicians are treated much worse than the average citizen. Much easier for Sandman to get a fat settlement than for Trump to get a fat settlement.
If there's two things I'd change, it would be to beef up the tort system (expand it), and make it relatively easy to sue for, say, $10,000. Eliminate the regulatory agencies, but make it easy for private citizens to sue for harm done. The fact that companies like NIKE and Apple basically support slave labor in China should be on full blast on all channels and nobody should buy their stuff, until they change their ways, and some of us they lost, forever, already.
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Elected representatives are supposed to vote their conscience, not just pander to the mob. Every representative advocating for his district, rather than defending the constitution is the problem in our country. They all make bad votes, if there's something in the bill that brings some pork to their district. Immensely popular moves that are bad for the whole country.
Think about how your home district is HURT when you go for the pork. If every OTHER representative is doing the same thing, then your district is paying extra for all the pork everywhere else. Everybody loses.
The principled thing to do in Congress is to oppose ALL the pork, including pork for your district.
The majority gets things wrong all the time! The job of a representative is to LEAD. That means to persuade the constituency that there's a higher principle in operation. If they don't like it, they can vote you out. If you're a good leader, you will win them over. More likely, you'll just pander and get re-elected that way.
The problem with this country is every representative testing the political winds, instead of acting out of PRINCIPLE.
There's a tension between majority rule and principle that must be maintained. For decades, we were too populist. Now, we're too authoritarian. That doesn't mean that populism is end-all, be-all. Populism is bread and circuses. Principle is "That's not the role of the federal government, even though it seems like everybody's getting something for free."
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Populism is how we got the welfare state. It's how being against ANY expansion of that welfare state became a death sentence for politicians who spoke truth. We voted for the politicians who promised to do MORE and expand the federal apparatus. Now, it's populism pushing back against the inroads those politicians' policies have made on liberty and prosperity.
Populism is Bread and Circuses. Once the people learn they can vote themselves a living, that's just what they'll do.
That's why the U.S. Constitution enshrined principles on which 2/3 of the people and states could agree on and forswore the federal government from expanding its role and scope beyond that, without a 2/3 majority. Of course, after 250 years, mere majority votes have ushered in many encroachments that are fully antithetical to the literal word and the spirit of the original constitution.
So many laws that should've been struck down by the Supreme Court but were not. The Constitution lies in tatters, and that, in my estimation, is the biggest single problem. It's rarely expedient, in the short term, to abide by the shackles placed on the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. But it's always essential. Find another way.
But populism demands that the state intervene, when it shouldn't. Now it's demanding that the government intervene less, but nobody really knows how to accomplish that. Too many sacred cows in too many quarters to ever dismantle the monster we built, telling us it would save us, when there's no saving any of us. We all die. In the meantime, to lead our best lives, as adults, we must stop begging the government to be our parent. It's not its role, although it's always happy to try.
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