Ronald Reagan was a terrible president. States do not need to be laboratories for the federal government to implement a policy. The markets should not be the first place elected officials look to find solutions to problems. Incremental progress is really just regression.
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Replying to @WalkerBragman
I used to endorse the laboratories of democracy ideal completely. I thought, "society is complex and experimentation facilitates the discovery of good solutions." It seemed really plausible
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Replying to @generativist @WalkerBragman
But, once you appreciate that different locales don't even necessarily recognize the same problems let alone attempt to solve them, the argument seems a lot weaker.
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Replying to @generativist @WalkerBragman
I realized I wanted laboratories of democracy to provide empirical justification for things that were inherently right. That's a problem by itself, but I forgot about the flip side -- you could use them to ensure the manufacture of opposing justifications.
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Sorry for using your post to quickly explore my own changes but I think for the empirically-minded the laboratory argument is a seductive exploit. If you forget the political games played, you fail to see how most of the power in the argument favors the status quo, not discovery.
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