President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Well, why don't you get going on your list of all the things that we all need to be protected against. Then someone can just appoint some czars to force your edicts on people.

Has it ever occured to you that:
1) Everyone's list is not going to be the same as your list.
2) To the extent that there would be widespread agreement about any genuine risks we're facing that we should be acting on -- for example, from global warming -- identifying it doesn't mean that everyone is willing to bear the same costs to try to address it that you might be willing to face. A good example: We don't have enough oil refining capacity in this country, and it was regulation and the threat of oncoming regulation that made it so that nobody would invest in new refining capacity any time during the last decade and a half, given that it takes a long time to recoup that investment. A lot of people who were all in favor of those regulations because they were going to "protect us from climate changes," and force the world to alternative energy sources (that were way more expensive) now are cursing the fact that they can't make ends meet and they are feeling it in particular at the gas pump.
3) Essentially the responses on this thread have been: Only the interests who influence legislators that we think are virtuous are OK. Any others? That's antidemocratic.

No, we can't count on Congress to do good things. Maybe people should vote a bit better and/or stop allowing Congress to run up massive debts to hand out money and favors to every interest (the ones you don't like and the ones you do) that buys their favor?

 

You must be asking that because ABC, owned by Disney which relentessly tries to give its customers products that will earn the company money (and won't piss off those customers, because then those customers won't watch and earn Disney money) would be airing XXX porn tonight at 7 pm if we didn't have the FCC protecting us from them.

But if it's a huge worry, I am sure Congress could address that one with a law without an FCC. And if they don't, I have more faith in people than others do. Without having been lulled into a false sense of complacency that something ubiquitous is nannying them, I suspect people will be able to figure out what media to restrict their kids to watching without that law. Same as they somehow manage to keep their kids from wandering into traffic without an authority intervening.

 

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to SCOTUS.