Yes. Full stop, yes. I don't know how to explain to you that we are not post-racial, we are not post-homophobia, we are the furthest thing possible from post-transphobic, etc.
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying we shouldn't care about minority issues, I'm saying that we don't need to waste time polling them before calling an evacuation to avoid a forest fire
Yes, they're probably going to have more trouble evacuating because as a group they're more at risk. We should absolutely send people in to help them, what's the point of civilization if we don't protect the vulnerable?
But we should not delay the general evacuation. We need to get things moving, then send help to the stragglers as the situation develops
This doesn't apply to everything... But Medicare drug prices are not something we need to carefully measure. They're either on Medicare, and will benefit along with the rest of society.
Or they should be but they're not, and if they're not being enrolled in Medicare that's a situation where we need to talk to them and ask why before moving forward (but we don't need to do environmental studies there)
You want to speed up the process, you do that by creating real consequences for people who try to weaponize the process. You want to keep people from going all NIMBY at a consultation, I promise that if you start dropping ＄100k fines on people for every time they misrepresent the facts in a town hall (and a couple orders of magnitude higher for the politicians and 10% of gross revenue for every corporation), you're going to get a lot fewer people running their mouths if they're going to lose their house if we can prove they're full of shit. There's a fucking reason "THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS" is one of the big 10. It's about time we start treating it with the same degree of seriousness.
This I high key agree with. We should go back to pressing perjury as well. The big 10 are guidelines for a functional society in antiquity - not all of them apply to modern day, but this and not murdering each other are the foundation of any society
We can do more then one thing at a time...I think what you say would be very difficult currently, but I full throat support it. It's not low hanging fruit, but it would be very consequential
But I think exercising power is low hanging fruit - without that we can do nothing. We need to pass laws, enforce them, and then pass more laws to reverse or fix what didn't work.
The climate apocalypse is upon us already. We need to act, then act some more. We need to be willing to make mistakes, then go back and correct them even as we continue to push forward