Eating Foods with Xylitol Can Be a Risk to Your Heart

If I wasn't generally opposed to an ever-growing scope of federal powers, I'd probably support an effective ban or extremely high bar on new additives. If food companies aren't willing to test it they shouldn't bother trying to sell it.

I think you are underestimating the cost of testing a new additive. It's also the case that the risk on additives is not nearly as high as with a drug, which paradoxically both makes the testing less important and also vastly more expensive (since the effect size is smaller). Something like xylitol for instance seems completely safe and we didn't have a huge obvious reason for thinking it was likely to be problematic. In fact previous studies were unable to pick up on the signal of increased stroke risk because they were confounded by the fact that sugar free consumers were vastly more likely to have those anyway.

As an additional point I'll just note that regulating this stuff would then have to deal with the fact that many things (like red meat) are already associated with known health risks. Putting principles aside, even if you want to only ban "additives", you'll start running into issues like we see with nitrates/nitrites, where organic manufacturers add celery juice (extremely high in nitrates), to avoid the label of added nitrates.

Even if you don’t agree with the policies, the democratic tent requires people to vote for them.

The reactionary position is getting people to say “no” to third rail policies. Hence the GOP focus on suppressing the vote.

What policies specifically do you consider the Democrats having tried to enshrine voter rights? Or do you mean access to voting, rather than the right to vote itself?

For Trump, do you actually think he attempted to make himself a king? Or is that embellishment when your actual view is that he attempted to vircumvent the electoral process and "win" a second term? I can't stand the man personally and would vote for an empty chair before him, but I also didn't read his attempt to flip the electoral result as an attempted annointment or coup.

I view them as effectively the same due to the huge overlap in policy. Both parties are pro-war, both parties want to lock down our borders, both parties want some kind of gun control, both want to limit access to abortion at some level, and both view the supreme court as a place that needs political appointees rather than the most qualified judges.

They absolutely debate the details, but neither party is for a balanced budget. Neither party supports real privacy laws. Neither party values individual freedoms over federal power. Neither party wants to limit federal powers in favor of state-level powers, though both are happy to make that claim only when it suits their specific law they can't get through at the federal level.