Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction
by kortilla on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:33AM
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> You have the attention of the whole country; rally them into making changes that can affect longer term gains.
That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat. You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.
This never works with even something as simple as a government shutdown over budget considerations.
Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction
by ianleeclark on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:41AM
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> That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat.
This is exactly how it works in practice in the US because the government is in terminal gridlock.
> You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.
The largest political party in the US is the non-voting party. Again, how it works in practice is that almost half of the population is already alienated.
Re:Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction
by buzzkillington on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @04:29AM
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Have you seen the patriot act?
Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.
I feel somewhat strange writing that as someone who buys into the systems philosophy of "fix whats broken immediately, enhance it later". While that's true in computer systems, it doesn't seem uncommon in the realm of politics that periods of disasters are taken as opportunities to experiment with different ideas.