6/ Or, perhaps, we have built up a terrible edifice where beam leans against beam, somewhat counter balancing each other, even as they make something grotesque and evil. ...and the ORDER in which we remove the components matter.
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7/ Public defenders should be among the last to go (as you yourself agree, I think,
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8/ As long as 2/3 of the Constitution is ignored, and the commerce clause and the public good allow absolutely everything, and the war on drugs rages, then maybe it makes sense - maybe it's MORE LIBERTARIAN - to not increase the # of people who want to ramp up the War on Drugs.
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@AlexNowrasteh and@CatoInstitute have documented how immigrants want much more government, want more taxes, want more social spending, and want more war on drugs.2 replies 1 retweet 10 likesShow this thread -
I've been impressed by your thorough picking apart of Cato's myriad arguments, here But Doesn't your approach rest on an interpretation of articulated preferences inconsistent with the literature on their utility? Aren't you out on a rational voter limb?
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expand, please? don't quite follow
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Cato's research develops the articulated policy preferences of immigrants, which you rightly find to be inconsistent with liberal principles in both the short and long term
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But the literature on voter behavior suggests that articulated policy preferences and revealed preferences diverge at varying rates, making the 1:1 relationship your critique rests on precarious
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So you're arguing that just bc we know that 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants SAY they like tax-and-spending, doesn't mean that they actually VOTE for it?
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Yep. I'm arguing that there is no rational voter.
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I can agree that there is no rational voter, but also say that stated preferences are more likely to correlate to voting behavior than not
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I'm not sure that's true enough to be useful; cf Evangelical support for Trump
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I think it’s fair to look at California over the last 30 years and treat it as an imperfect-yet-meaningful example.
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