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johnnyFive  ·  2795 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is It Better to Be Poor in Bangladesh or the Mississippi Delta?

    but I would say it's less common than you'd expect.

But this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Notice how the person you cited as doing good (and he did positive good in the form of net neutrality, not just getting out of the way) was appointed by the more pro-regulation party? And then the person who's in there now who's fucking it all up is from the anti-regulation party?





user-inactivated  ·  2795 days ago  ·  link  ·  

None of the current parties are functionally anti regulation anymore.

johnnyFive  ·  2794 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  2794 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Republicans broadly want less restriction on banking and healthcare (barely, Jesus what the fuck is that ACA replacement? It's like Obama wrote it with his left hand), but greater regulation on marriage, gender issues, abortion, etc.

Dems want greater firearms regulation, financial regulation etc.

Neither of those is an anti-regulation stance.