It could be incompetence, which is very plausible as we have no upper management in government.
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Or it could be malice, which needs no further analysis. We're in a poor spot when we're praying for incompetence.
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Ultimately, this is in my mind the ultimate weakness of liberalist regulatory states. They basically rely on good faith adherence.
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Because even if there are enforcement mechanisms in place, they take orders of magnitude more time to take effect and don't scale.
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Normally if one major federal law is broken, that's a big deal with investigations and courts and shit.
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Break like 30, and the system simply can't keep up. It's extremely easy to saturate and overload.
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In other words, our sacred democracy has been protected from a slide into authoritarianism merely by virtue of good faith, not laws.
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