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What could go wrong? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you mean "your proposal"?

Do you mean this post on Lemmy? Cause I'd vote for someone running for public office with that as their platform pertaining to the housing situation/crisis

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shit, I’d vote for that person, too.

Alas, I have zero interest in running for any public office.

Funny, that: with notable exceptions, of course, it’s generally the busy-body, loud-mouthed, ideologically-possessed control-freaks who seek any sort of political power. Sensible people tend to mind their own goddamned business, until the politicians and wingnuts force our hands to finally get involved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-Douglas Adams

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd vote for a president running on a platform they would have zero authority to enact?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't specify president per se.

Politicians in most modern governments, of course, aren't emperors who issue edicts and instantly enact sweeping change.

The imaginary politician in this scenario would run what that platform expressing the ideal. They then try to get those policies enacted against the opposition, which is both the inertia of the bureaucracy and opposing political winds.

You saying the imaginary person running for president with that platform couldn't snap their fingers and put it in place doesn't mean they wouldn't steer the government in that direction, thats almost always the best we can do and I don't think we should give up because the change we want isnt immediate