Comment by fireflash38

5 days ago

The "other side" here is the political group that is consistently anti-regulation, anti-consumer, anti-government.

The "other side" does not consider themselves anti-consumer. You disagree with them on what anti-consumer means, but they have their own reasons to consider their position pro-consumer and you are doing debate a disservice by ignoring that.

They do consider themselves anti-regulation and anti-government in general, but they are not (mostly) anarchists, they do agree with some regulation and government, they just want the minimum possible and thus place a high bar on how bad the alternatives must be before they will agree to regulation/government.

  • Thanks for chiming in and pointing this out. I, too, am frustrated by the setback of this nullification.

    In my original comment, I was talking about the general case for due process. "Progress" is almost as useless a category as "good" and "bad".

    Debates have become astonishingly partisan.

  • Do they actually consider themselves pro-consumer, do they lie and say that, or do they keep quiet about it and let you assume that?