Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

Re:Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power constr... by graemep on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:15AM (#46871236)

I think they have adopted a common ideology. The people in the parties have become more similar over the years, as have the voters they appeal too.

A few decades ago a very high proportion of Labour politicians were former trade union leaders, for example. Conservative voters tended to be more rural and more affluent.

Now a very high proportion are professional politicians who have never really done anything else. They are all people who have done well through the status quo and do not want to change anything.

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Re:Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power constr... by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:56AM (#46873576)

> Now a very high proportion are professional politicians who have never really done anything else. They are all people who have done well through the status quo and do not want to change anything.

I really dislike that this is a thing. Politics should not be a profession. That being said, the obvious way of fixing this (term limits) would just end up giving more power to the civil service bureaucracies, which has problems.

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