Re:Why can’t we mandate anything? Global resurgence of patri...
by salawat on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:03AM
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Oi vey.
Well, I just read that, and that's 5 minutes of my life I won't get back.
To save you time the article asserts:
Resistance to utilizing state power mandate vaccination, and politician's encouragement of distrust of the legitimacy of the bureaucratic state, is viewed to be a reactionary shift back toward a paradigm where politics is shifting to be more about the holder of office than the office itself.
The article does not at all touch on such thorny topics as:
A) the precedent set by expanding public health mandates beyond what people are willing to volunteer for, and the erosion of State legitimacy that the enforcement of such measures would result in
B) the problem of powerful State bureaucracies being run by people that can increasingly coordinate to do significant damage in a short period of time. The age of Abraham Lincoln's famous "No man can do much damage in four years" is long dead.
C) The increasingly damaged relationship of for profit media with the common citizen, and weaponization of editorial discretion. See the ivermectin debacle where even the hospital claimed to be overrun has had to come out and correct the media due to not enough boots on the ground verification or willful pushing to create a story. On the other side of the coin is lack of coverage on politically inconvenient person's like Julian Assange.
D) repeated examples of public official's regular breaching of the public trust, to no or little consequence. (broad daylight insider trading by Congress, ramming through of an approval for dubious Alzheimer's drugs etc...)
E) The continued unreasonable political efficacy of the .01% in escaping any accountability for acts of blatant corruption, and the overarching stain that leaves on the fairness and legitimacy of the system. (See the grant of immunity to the Sackler's for their role in the opioid crisis)
If you're going to try to sell everyone on big government good, return to small government bad, I at least expect a bit more homework to be done than was actually demonstrated by this article, but that's just me.
Well, I just read that, and that's 5 minutes of my life I won't get back.
To save you time the article asserts:
Resistance to utilizing state power mandate vaccination, and politician's encouragement of distrust of the legitimacy of the bureaucratic state, is viewed to be a reactionary shift back toward a paradigm where politics is shifting to be more about the holder of office than the office itself.
The article does not at all touch on such thorny topics as:
A) the precedent set by expanding public health mandates beyond what people are willing to volunteer for, and the erosion of State legitimacy that the enforcement of such measures would result in
B) the problem of powerful State bureaucracies being run by people that can increasingly coordinate to do significant damage in a short period of time. The age of Abraham Lincoln's famous "No man can do much damage in four years" is long dead.
C) The increasingly damaged relationship of for profit media with the common citizen, and weaponization of editorial discretion. See the ivermectin debacle where even the hospital claimed to be overrun has had to come out and correct the media due to not enough boots on the ground verification or willful pushing to create a story. On the other side of the coin is lack of coverage on politically inconvenient person's like Julian Assange.
D) repeated examples of public official's regular breaching of the public trust, to no or little consequence. (broad daylight insider trading by Congress, ramming through of an approval for dubious Alzheimer's drugs etc...)
E) The continued unreasonable political efficacy of the .01% in escaping any accountability for acts of blatant corruption, and the overarching stain that leaves on the fairness and legitimacy of the system. (See the grant of immunity to the Sackler's for their role in the opioid crisis)
If you're going to try to sell everyone on big government good, return to small government bad, I at least expect a bit more homework to be done than was actually demonstrated by this article, but that's just me.