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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (196901)	3/4/2023 11:34:37 AM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

Zero Covid policy was always stupid, and never about Covid... as no real medical basis for the policy exists. Lots of states have propositions, referenda, a few even have direct constitutional amendment by popular vote. None of those enable enacting anything that violates the U.S. Constitution... which constrains them from the risks that unchecked Democracy poses... as enabling the mob in doing whatever it wants... How you constrain government to prevent it being stupid / doing stupid things... is always a worthy topic, within any system. And, would agree we also have rule by minority now... as a direct recent and accumulated impact of elections being subverted... to have them not reflect the will of the majority. The mob is not inherently reflective of majority opinion, of course.. as it will generally remain true that a majority of people prefer avoiding mobs ? The "social" function of popular opinion... is hardly the same thing as the political in [improving ?] decision making... so, worth studying how they do... and do not... function... as the one is exploited in enabling the other... as is also true in any system... That's why "fake news" is (only recently) become an item of popular awareness... as it is created in trying to manufacture both division and expanding distance... between extremes in opinion... and between opinion and any basis for it other than the "social" in its manufacture. No system will work, long, with its fundamental beliefs being too far divorced from reality... which does not mean that sociopaths will not find it useful to exploit "division" whether it imposes risks or not ? [Making better decisions] should apply rigor in processes to address all of that... as, for instance, not advancing the adopting of methods and means in fostering political attachments to power... that are based in denying basic elements of reality... Repealing the law of gravity... because those other guys are exploiting it to disadvantage you ? A lot of politics really is about that stupid... and only occasionally is pointed out: The Greatest Job Of Political Trolling Ever? On Tuesday, State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia (R-11th district) filed SB 1248, gloriously titled “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” which, in its ultra-sanitized summary, would call on the state of Florida to “immediately cancel the filings of a political party if certain conditions exist... ...in the bill’s text, we learn that SB 1248 would ask the state to “immediately cancel the filings of a political party, to include its registration and approved status as a political party, if the party’s platform has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”