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From the wikipedia[1]: "Congress established the agency under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which President Richard M. Nixon signed into law on December 29, 1970."

Nixon[2] also tried to get Universal Health Care for all low-income and employed Americans, but it was blocked by Senator Edward Kennedy and other Democrats. Maybe politics[3] is just the art of getting the state to delegate property rights, even intellectual property, rather than itself productive pursuit.

I postulate[4] that discussions in political spectrum are no more a valuable expenditure of time and resources than painting styles being be a point of reference for programmers.

In summary this topic is an "Unknown or expired link" to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics

[4] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postulate

Just because people don't act rationally, that doesn't mean that their emotions are not consistent, or can not be understood.

Emotions are not intentional, nor do they lead to rational behavior. (by definition). The translation of an emotion into a point-of-view depends purely on the context: it can swing any direction.

A conservative might be against war, because he/she is afraid it will make the world dislike the US more, and hurt his/her security more.

A progressive might be in favor of war, because he/she is afraid that without it, the world is worse off, and the potential for a better world is lost.

And from that perspective, I do consider the stated 'political' dimension a potentially relevant categorization of programmers' mentality.

But without knowing their background, there is no way to predict how they actually feel about specific approaches.

Nixon was a Pre-Reagan Establishment Conservative. Such Republicans are not tolerated by the modern GOP, as Nixon's record regarding OSHA, the EPA (which he also created), and Universal Health Care will demonstrate.

Political parties evolve over time, sometimes quite drastically, as the political makeup of the country as a whole shifts and changes.

And it would have been the 91st Congress, which as you can see, had a pretty-substantial Democratic majority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91st_United_States_Congress

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