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How to get all liberal policy BANNED: call it "new technology"
Well, it took us a half-century of divisiveness, de-conversions, biliousness, and neglect of other issues, but we finally got to change abortion from de-facto illegal in red states, to de-jure illegal in red states. Now the power to abort has been placed where it belongs: in the hands of God, and the occasional back-alley.
Unless, of course, the next knocked-up adolescent slut is able to summon a self-driving car and get a no-questions-asked ride to a blue state, where abortions are still offered free-of-charge at every tofu factory.
This has got me thinking of a new approach to explaining conservativism: what if, instead of calling democrats communist baby-killers, we call democrats nerdy inventors?
I say this because there is a massive double-standard between how the public treats innovations from loud shouty activists, versus innovations from quiet, pathetic, slap-magnet NERDS.
I'll give you an example of what things would look like without this double standard:
Above: human drivers being totally irreplaceable.
Or Nuclear Power: climate change, most pollution, water scarcity, and countless other problems would have been solved or never even become issues had we chosen not to regulate nuclear power to death. But we had to, because of a single-pixel line on this graph, where deaths caused by the status quo fill the rest of the page. 8,700,000 people are killed every year by coal. We commit a holocaust every year we we fail to replace coal.
And how about Vaping - you'd think it would have been used as a way to phase out cigarettes, which kill 7,700,000 people every year. We commit a holocaust every year we delay the replacement of tobacco with vaping. Yet vaping is being regulated to death because nobody has bothered to research what effect pure nicotine has on the human body.
Sure, we know it decreases obesity and anxiety, but if being fat and phobic is good enough for my dad, it's good enough for me. Nicotine increases social unity (Got a cig? Got a light? Got any other group of people as helpful and good at sharing as smokers are with each other?), but I guess the status quo is giving us plenty of that already. If pure nicotine replaced tobacco, would it kill more than 7,700,000 annually? Nobody wants to research this, they'd rather ban first and ask questions never.
I could go on and on: apps like Uber, AirBnB, TaskRabbit and so on are getting regulated to death all over the place, as if the status quo has already done such a great job of providing transportation, housing, and flexible job options...
Android girls will NEVER be able to comply with health and safety regulation.
Okay, I'll stop with the examples. My point is that if we change our talking points so that we refer to liberal proposals as "technology" and liberal activists as "nerdy inventors", people will treat policy innovation the same way they do technological innovation. That will move the world's politics so far to the right that even the Taliban will be complaining about how stodgy and square everybody is.
Here's a few practice talking points to get you started:
Unless, of course, the next knocked-up adolescent slut is able to summon a self-driving car and get a no-questions-asked ride to a blue state, where abortions are still offered free-of-charge at every tofu factory.
This has got me thinking of a new approach to explaining conservativism: what if, instead of calling democrats communist baby-killers, we call democrats nerdy inventors?
I say this because there is a massive double-standard between how the public treats innovations from loud shouty activists, versus innovations from quiet, pathetic, slap-magnet NERDS.
I'll give you an example of what things would look like without this double standard:
Imagine someone invents gay marriage. They say that it will reduce the amount of suicides by gay teenagers.
Hollywood makes movie after movie showing gay marriage leading to apocalypses and dystopias, and a stock character, the evil and insane "mad gay activist" appears everywhere, especially in children's media.
Then one country in Scandinavia legalizes gay marriage. For 3 years the gay teen suicide rate drops to exactly zero, but then in year 4 there's exactly one gay suicide, the infamous suicide of Elton Freddie. This gets endless media attention, and gay marriages end up so heavily regulated that no gay people ever get married again.
Sound too good to be true? Well, this is how people already treat technology. Human drivers kill 1,350,000 people every year. The status quo commits a new holocaust every decade we delay self-driving cars. Yet we still do it, because self-driving cars still aren't 100% perfect.Hollywood makes movie after movie showing gay marriage leading to apocalypses and dystopias, and a stock character, the evil and insane "mad gay activist" appears everywhere, especially in children's media.
Then one country in Scandinavia legalizes gay marriage. For 3 years the gay teen suicide rate drops to exactly zero, but then in year 4 there's exactly one gay suicide, the infamous suicide of Elton Freddie. This gets endless media attention, and gay marriages end up so heavily regulated that no gay people ever get married again.
Above: human drivers being totally irreplaceable.
And how about Vaping - you'd think it would have been used as a way to phase out cigarettes, which kill 7,700,000 people every year. We commit a holocaust every year we delay the replacement of tobacco with vaping. Yet vaping is being regulated to death because nobody has bothered to research what effect pure nicotine has on the human body.
Sure, we know it decreases obesity and anxiety, but if being fat and phobic is good enough for my dad, it's good enough for me. Nicotine increases social unity (Got a cig? Got a light? Got any other group of people as helpful and good at sharing as smokers are with each other?), but I guess the status quo is giving us plenty of that already. If pure nicotine replaced tobacco, would it kill more than 7,700,000 annually? Nobody wants to research this, they'd rather ban first and ask questions never.
I could go on and on: apps like Uber, AirBnB, TaskRabbit and so on are getting regulated to death all over the place, as if the status quo has already done such a great job of providing transportation, housing, and flexible job options...
Android girls will NEVER be able to comply with health and safety regulation.
Here's a few practice talking points to get you started:
"So what if every other advanced country has a cheaper health system and longer life expectancy? I still haven't seen conclusive physical proof of the nonexistence of death panels."
"Sure, experts are saying universal basic income would grow the US economy by 2.5 trillion dollars, but we still don't know what effect it will have on the Antarctic Toothfish! "
"What do you mean, nobody has ever died from a cannabis overdose? What if someone filled their swimming pool with CBT oil and then drowned in it? Are you saying you want us all to drown? Is that what you're saying?"
how could any population wind up storing massive piles of rotting vegetation and infecting themselves with cholera, dysentery, gallstones and the pox over and over again?
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