Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders

[David Horn]

(02-04-2021, 02:03 PM)mamabug Wrote:

(02-02-2021, 03:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I agree with that last point. The problem now is that one Party (yours I assume) is pathologically dedicated to standing in the way of all necessary solutions, mostly justified by their neo-liberal ideology and their religion. Sometimes gridlock is dysfunction. That is the case today. The filibuster must be reduced or removed now. A nation cannot have a government prevented from taking any action for 40 years, and expect to endure. The dysfunctional Party (yours) has removed filibusters too; the most necessary one in fact. It should be our turn now.

I feel like this is the sound of my point flying right past you. 

I don't have a party, as I've said before.   Both of the two major ones have good points and bad points, I judge them entirely by how coercive and authoritarian the proposals are.  I used to be far more Democrat in preference but that has changed over time.  Possibly it is due to the fact that Republicans have been slipping out of power culturally for some time and whichever side is out of power tends to put forward more arguments in support of individual freedom.  As I've also said, it is rarely the majority that has to fear it's liberties being curtailed by the minority.  When I was growing up, conservatives were more in power so all of the support for freedom came from the left.  Now they are the ones advocating silence of unpopular opinions, discrimination based on political affiliation, and purging of wrongthink from the military.

Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.

If you're looking for a libertarian solution to the current crisis, keep looking. We're moving into a communitarian period, where 'all for one and one for all' will become increasingly popular, and 'get off my lawn' much less so.  We've tried libertarian policies in one form or another for roughly 40 years, and it's finally sinking in.  Only the rich and powerful were truly free.