Who loves the phrase "common-sense approach" more? Lefties or righties? I suspect righties. Lefties should try to steal the phrase.
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oh dear God no. The world is full of counterintuitive effects: common-sense policymaking is doomed.
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I know, that's why I am suggesting it. Now that the right has been scuttled, time to undermine the left... :D
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heh, good plan :-) On the other hand, I'd prefer that "the world is complicated, let's think about nth-order effects" go mainstream.
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AFAICT conservatives are a little better at considering 2nd-order effects; at least, left critiques of right ideas often ignore them.

