Polls are an absolutely awful metric to use to determine something like how people feel about racism or other social taboos that society frowns upon. If you polled 1000 people with the simple questio… (View Post)

No - but that's a bad example. You'll note that in every instance I've been discussing this, I use terms like "law makers". I've referenced the gender breakdown of the US house of represent… (View Post)

I genuinely understand the desire for people to want a meritocracy for their government. I actually want that too. I want the best candidate to be elected and do the best job possible. If absolutely … (View Post)

Correlation does not imply causation. The argument here is relatively straight forward: Regulations can be good or bad. Child labor laws are regulations on industry, and they're nearly uniformly eval… (View Post)

Well A - I was referring to @Balrog99 about defending bailouts (And that's not a shot btw - I agree with some measure of bailouts are necessary. However, I would expect conditions to apply to ensure … (View Post)