Why weren't obscenity laws tossed out along with the sodomy laws?
(Though it supports the idea that all laws should have a sunset clause and have to be intentionally renewed rather than just stay on the books because of apathy)
This is honestly one of my favourite political concepts at the moment. I first became aware of it after reading an interview of Owsley Stanley of all people, but I've seen it discussed here on HN recently too. I really think it could solve a limited but very important set of society's problems. It's also neither left nor right wing in any meaningful sense, it has a broad non-partisan appeal.
Also, under the US system, many broadly popular policies (marijuana legalization, public health care option) have no realistic path to enactment, so that's far from a guarantee.
are you saying the right is more likely to want to hassle troublemakers? If that were true, sunset clause would be a policy of the left, no?
I don't think of it as left or right, it's a libertarian policy. Right now in the US the left skews authoritarian and the right libertarian but that's not a constant (e.g Texas abortion law)
Furthermore, all bills should be subject to judicial review before they reach the President's desk, and the standard should be whether a literal reading of the Constitution and all its amendments (including the 9th and 10th) in contemporary English grant Congress the authority to have passed it in the first place. None of this "what did the Framers mean?" bullshit. They had their time to govern; it's our turn now.
If a bill fails review, the authors should be booted out of Congress for having exceeded their authority.
If that's not ironic, don't know what is.
I don't want to be paranoid, I don't want to be an activist. But I can't even talk to you normally anymore. I constantly have to worry if I'm allowed to say certain words, I have to check my accounts to see if I was shadowbanned and I have to do that on all platforms once in a while.
It's ridiculous. I don't even think any extreme thoughts and I can't even be left alone. Like.. Leave me alone, you know? The internet wasn't like this 10 years ago.