If politicians had any desire or awareness to actually represent the needs of their constituents, the USA would look like a wildly different place. Instead we just have a single wedge issue every four years that's sufficient to drive enough people to the polls to keep politicians in power.

I think our lame ass congress wants to get rid of it by eliminating standard time. Completely useless group of humans.

That still counts. It would technically be eliminating DST shifting, and then redefining the standard time zones as minus one hour. It would just be the new standard and no more switching.

We should eliminate (user-facing) standard time. Now that virtually everybody has time-telling computers instead of just mechanical clocks, we have a real opportunity to go back to True Solar Time. Noon can be set to precisely when the sun is highest in the sky at your precise location. This is enabled by smartphones knowing the astronomical date and your precise position on the geoid. Your noon and the noon of people a few miles away would be slightly different, but computers can automatically handle all the calculations required to coordinate with these time differences.

As a species, we didn't stop using solar time until sometime around the industrial revolution, when getting workers into factories at a precise predictable time became important to the people with money. (Some, such as people in monasteries, lived their lives according to clocks before this for superstitious reasons, but that wasn't the norm for the general population.)

We now have the technology to free ourselves from this clock tyranny and restore balance between our lives and daylight, if only we are willing to once again break from tradition.

but then you'd be back to the problem of coordinating times again. if you want to meet a buddy for lunch at noon but your two noons are different, now you need to communicate your offsets to each other constantly. every time check would require precise location data, that seems bad for privacy.

Unfortunately, it’s been picked up by figures like Senator Rubio.

They want to retain daylight saving all year.

As long as we pick one and don't switch im fine. It's the switching that's the problem for me.