drawscore wrote:Would it surprise you to learn that if this same policy was put in place by a Democrat president, many of those that call it "unworkable," "inhumane," or other terms, would do a complete 180, and suddenly, the policy would become "wise," "prudent," and "necessary?"
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I was going to make a comment about your crystal ball being really powerful. But I'm not going to fall for that trick. I'm not going to let you deflect the issue. We're not talking about how hypothetical people would hypothetically perceive a hypothetical policy if it were pitched by someone else. I'm talking about the validity of the policy itself and why it was made in the first place. I'm talking about the setting of policy, by policy-makers, based on personal bias and complete disregard for actual evidence. Things like the Republican stance on climate change, the war on drugs, eroding the secular state, and immigration. When you have mountains of evidence and studies that shows the effect of an action on a situation, and people still choose to completely ignore said evidence and make policy based on "common sense" that is completely wrong. Then they enact and defend policies that have been proven not to work many times in the past. For f***'s sake, how long are we going to have to deal with the specter of Trickle-Down Economics popping back up, even though it has never worked any time in history it has ever been implemented? How many people have to serve 30+ year jail sentences for selling a dimebag, because "DRUGZ R BAD N DRUGGIE-HEADS MUST B PUNISH'D!!!!!!!" How many women have to have their lives ruined forever because someone thinks an inanimate clump of cells with no independent brain function is alive because "IT LOOKZ LIKE A BABEE!!!!!!!" and "SHE SHUDNT BE A SLUT THEN!!!!"
It makes me absolutely furious that people make policy and spend billions and trillions of dollars while sitting on mountains of evidence that it will fail (or at best be useless) without a second thought.