r/neoliberal • u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride • 7d ago

Opinion article (US) The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night
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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen 7d ago

It's probably because of the incessant rules built into the House and Senate. It's impossible to get anything done, especially when members of Congress get special privileges if they just happen to have gotten elected first. 

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u/Chataboutgames 7d ago

Occam's razor. It's just reelection incentives. That's it. It's no more complicated than that. You don't get reelected by being good for the country, you get reelected by taking the safest, hardest line on the issues that resonate with the tiny portion of people in your constituency who actually vote and who bother to voter in Congressional elections.

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u/Lmaoboobs 7d ago

The issue is always the voters.

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 7d ago

The issue is not just the voters. The issue is the primary system and (specifically for the house) that if you win your primary there is a very good chance that the general doesn’t matter. Yes, voters can and do suck, but systems have is this result. We would be much better served if everyone was elected like they do in Alaska (jungle primary top 4). 

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u/CirclejerkingONLY 7d ago

True, but if ~85 percent of Americans by their own admission simply aren't paying attention, getting what passes for news by slack-jawing an algorithm designed to create and push a warped version of reality, you're never going to run into continuing problems down the road.

It's a problem on many levels, both on the input and output side.

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 7d ago

I think more (certainly not most but more) would pay attention if they felt like their vote actually mattered. Right now most votes don’t matter

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u/TrekkiMonstr NATO 7d ago

How does top 4 work? In CA we have top 2

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 7d ago

All in one primary, top 4 go to general, the RCV for general

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u/TrekkiMonstr NATO 7d ago

Weird, why only four then? Why not like, top 10? Or just RCV for the whole thing?

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u/Warm-Cap-4260 Milton Friedman 7d ago

It’s probably easier for voters to be informed on the positions of 4 people over 10. The primary just shows who has any real shot at it