It’s certainly fairly easy to persuade people that it’s a good idea, but you might be right that asymmetric lobbying can keep good ideas off the table indefinitely. On the other hand, ‘cigarettes cause cancer’ to ‘smoking bans’ took about fifty years despite an obvious asymmetry in favour of tobacco.
As I say, politics is all rather opaque to me, but once an idea is universally agreed amongst intellectuals it does seem to eventually result in political action.
It’s certainly fairly easy to persuade people that it’s a good idea, but you might be right that asymmetric lobbying can keep good ideas off the table indefinitely. On the other hand, ‘cigarettes cause cancer’ to ‘smoking bans’ took about fifty years despite an obvious asymmetry in favour of tobacco.
As I say, politics is all rather opaque to me, but once an idea is universally agreed amongst intellectuals it does seem to eventually result in political action.