How it Feels to Read Any Political News these Days
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This is peak teenage politics.
Like I know politicians are fucking scumbags that in no way do what they say or are supposed to be doing, but politics and economics legitimately are extremely fucking complicated.
Let's take the example of repeat offenders in a given city causing something like 90+% of the problems.
Why can't we just kill them? Hell, let's just actually incarcerate them for the remainder of their lives or for decades until they're objectively "fixed."
You see, because Bukele did this. It worked without question. It is just one small example of pressing the button.
Seems like we should add "this is peak teenage politics" to the meme.
an often overlooked feature of death penalty was to reduce the impact of the bad strains on the gene pool. yes, sometimes they had already reproduced, but it still lowered their reproductive potential.
That's a perfect example, because there is literally nobody in the US government who could accomplish this as a singular action (aka flipping a switch).
You're talking about flipping the switch like it's easy but the reality is that you need to get some super-majority of politicians to all "flip the switch" at the same time, and THAT is nearly impossible.
You mean like what Bukele did, right? Exactly like I just said, right? What you're referring to is bureaucracy which, by just pressing the switch, you just sidestep. Exactly like Bukele did.
The US political system is designed specifically to prevent unilateral action. Every single politician tries to undermine and get around this constantly, but it's still more or less true. Executive orders are one of the only unilateral actions still available in the US, and even these are often bogged down by the court system.
Plenty of issues are legitimately complicated. Also, plenty of very simple issues are made complicated and therefore impossible to simply fix.
"Trans kids" is a great example of a "fix everything button" issue. Simply ban hormones and surgery for physically normal minors looking to troon out but allow hormones and surgery for rare medical cases such as precocious puberty, etc.
A well written and comprehensive national law to that effect would legitimately fix everything for that issue. But it will never happen because our government is dysfunctional.
And is there anyone who could create such a law as a singular action? It's only as easy as flipping a switch if a majority of politicians start working together in unison, which they literally NEVER do.
Describe to me ANY realistic way that such a law could be passed that doesn't involve pages and pages of negotiating tactics to bring in various interests groups, and keep them in line to get it done. Deals need to be negotiated, compromises made, and on and on and on forever.
Your rhetoric in this thread is simply making a case for dictatorship. Not sure if that was your goal, but that is what you are doing.
Ah yes. Benevolent dictator. The ideal form of government where an autocrat with absolute power just so happens to govern exactly the way you think is right. In case you're not aware this is also a mainstay of freshmen year political classes.
You're right. If something requires even moderate effort, then we should give up and not make an attempt.
Good call.