If you track down when it all started, it probably was Reagan’s era revocation of the FCC Fairness Doctrine. The slow but inexorable slide to extreme political polarization that still continues unabated. It might be too late to fix it before things turn ugly, but kudos for trying.
And you are right, there are no adults in the room. You are Harry, and the McGonagalls of the world are more concerned with following the rules than with saving the world. I guess Eliezer’s concept of “heroic responsibility” is rubbing off. The question is, can you find HPMOR-worthy outside the box approaches.
Examples like car seat mandates and the Jones act are not problems that are created through political polarization.
Both Democrat and Republican voters support getting rid of civil forfeiture. Blaming political polarization for it not happening seems like a bad diagnosis.
If you track down when it all started, it probably was Reagan’s era revocation of the FCC Fairness Doctrine. The slow but inexorable slide to extreme political polarization that still continues unabated. It might be too late to fix it before things turn ugly, but kudos for trying.
And you are right, there are no adults in the room. You are Harry, and the McGonagalls of the world are more concerned with following the rules than with saving the world. I guess Eliezer’s concept of “heroic responsibility” is rubbing off. The question is, can you find HPMOR-worthy outside the box approaches.
Examples like car seat mandates and the Jones act are not problems that are created through political polarization.
Both Democrat and Republican voters support getting rid of civil forfeiture. Blaming political polarization for it not happening seems like a bad diagnosis.
I… have no idea what you are trying to say. There is some cooperation still going on, yes. Not nearly as much as it used to.
The Jones Act was from 1920. It’s not a problem that started to exist after the revocation of the Fairness Doctrine.
Cross-party cooperation is not needed in many states to change state laws like car seat mandates.