We should have some kind of science committee, appointed for life, kind of like the Supreme court. Their job is to oversee issues like the EPA, DEA, and FDA, CDC, etc. and appoint the directors and secretaries of that committee. Though of course whoever controls the senate controls the committee and a republican senate has the ability to put in a climate change denier for life, so maybe it's not a great idea
we had a group of independant scientists that advised and informed congress but their conclusions got too inconvieniant for the house to fund. Now lawmakers have their pick of think tanks to listen to and those on the hill argue that's much better, though they don't listen to the CBO anymore anyways so its not like they'd do the same.
In America, there's nothing that can't be privatized
Our government is at war with itself internally. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
tbh having a 'christian scientist' appointed could be a terror for decades
They could be anti-vax, anti-climate change, and a flat earther who blames the 'fags' for californias fires. What is stopping that really.
A rule where they have to have at least one peer-reviewed and widely accepted study relevant to the field that they advise on.
this would only add incentive to pervert the sciences with politics
"Peer reviewed" "widly accepted" "study" "field". All things that can be subjective and easily abused by politicians.
Its honestly a good idea in general; give politicians the power to legislate for the best interests of their people and their country. The problem is that politicians in America no longer act in the best interest of either of those parties. At their worst theyre acting for their corporate puppeteers, and at their best theyre acting only for the constituents that voted for them.
Shit just doesnt work the way it should anymore.
I'll hold some hope for social change where people will stop electing incumbents who don't act in the interests of their citizens, or who repeatedly make ill-advised decisions. Given the ever-increasing polarity and "us vs them" mindset, however, the outlook is grim. I just wish there was some way to enforce sense onto our world that didn't require a bunch of maniacs shooting each other or stamping out opposition with force and oppression, but I guess the only other option is to just ride out these cursed interesting times the best we can.
The issue now is that nobody fucking votes, the few that do tend to be informed and passionate about the issue or candidates but a good chunk of people aren't. Presidential elections get about a 50% turnout but local elections get less than 20% lol. We could be like Australia where we make it a crime to not vote in elections, but that doesn't make informed voting. So you'll just get dipshits that vote on the party line or will just write in "harambe" or "burnie sanders" like the in the last presidential election.
It's kind of an issue with democracy; people don't give a rats ass about whats going on until a fool steps in and starts messing things up.
young people are discouraged from voting by the fact that they have little to no representation of their age group. American politicians are all dinosaurs.
It's like they try to make voting as annoying as possible with the huge amount of elected positions in the US, elections being on weekdays, being taken off registered list etc.
This is just some the positions you can vote for in the US.
President, federal senator, federal representative, governor, lieutenant governor, state senator, state representative (except in Nebraska), state secretary, state comptroller, state attorney general, state treasurer,
state auditor, state supreme court, state judges, county commissioner, local judges, sheriff, mayor, city council, local judges, county coroner, county board of education
Remember that guy that put his name on the ballot for an election judge as a joke and one because literally no one voted he won?
It also doesn't hope that voting is literally a worthless gesture at best and a complete illusion of free choice at worst. Voting doesn't mean shit in the US, your votes are worthless on all but the small level, and even then they still probably aren't worth as much as you'd like to believe they are.
So just accept that Republicans always win because they have more money and propaganda?
Yea this isn't true at all, whatsoever, under any circumstances.
You can bitch and moan about presidential elections all day long because of the electoral college, fine. But your local elections and state level elections are not at all dictated by electorates, it's straight up vote count baby. So yea, if you don't vote then your vote doesn't matter. If you quit being a baby and go vote, then your vote does matter. My vote has the exact same value as your vote pal. "but muh green party never wins" yea maybe if you actually voted for them they would. Maybe if you had actually voted in the last presidential election, Trump wouldn't have won either. One hundred and fifty million people like you didn't vote, so whose vote isn't worth anything again?
Who sits in the president's office barely matters, as displayed by Trump whose been erasing the Obama presidency one EO at a time, and the next president will erase his legacy too. What actually matters is who sits in the senate and in congress because they don't have term limits, and people like you don't vote because you think your vote doesn't count because you don't have a clue how the system works. So because you're an apathetic baby, you let men like Strom Thurmond sit in office for 500 years.
If you don't vote, you have absolutely no right to complain about politics.
If i take a full day off from work to vote, my paycheck is short $70-$80. I could just take a half day, but my commute to work is more than half an hour, and my local polling places are few and far between. It's not something I can reliably do. If I was someone who relied on public transportation, it'd be even harder to cram both work & voting together in the same daylight hours.
When you're living paycheck to paycheck, ending some weeks with only two dollars to your name, that's a lot of cash that you're just letting go, just to be one in thousands of names picking sides. Some people seriously just can't vote for a variety of reasons, and this country's rules and regulations (or lack thereof) don't help citizens in the slightest. Hell, the current team in power has a history of actively making it harder for people they don't want voting to do so. There's a long list of people I'd blame for who's currently in power before tossing the guilt entirely to non-voters
I thought this was already known. Registered Republican turnout was about the same as always, while the registered Democrat turnout was down. Gee, I wonder why....
In Florida, the state that ended up winning George Bush the election in the year 2000, Bush got only 500 votes more than Gore.
Voting matters. Being cynical about it doesn't mean you're correct.
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