This is a subverse designed to encourage adult discussion spanning the entirety of the political spectrum. All are welcome, from Libertarians to Authoritarians, Democrats to Republicans, An Caps to Anarchists, Socialists to Fascists to Communists, Green, Blue, Black, White, Purple with Yellow Polka dots, whatever color, persuasion, or affiliation, this is a place for you to post your thoughts, articles, and engage in discussion meant to foster understanding.
Politics is best when we try to avoid personal attacks, limits on discussion, censorship, trolling, shilling, racism, homophobia, antisemitism, or any other forms of bigotry and malfeasance.
Election 2020 Politics Sticky
Politics 2017 Christmas Theme sticky
Nov 2016 sticky on new CSS
This subverse belongs to the community of users. Users are invited to post meta-threads about v/politics and I will gladly sticky them. @flyawayhigh
Use the "Report Spam" link to report spam and someone will review the report. J-mods have the ability to remove duplicate noncommercial spam.
v/politics is for all politics.
v/uspolitics is for US politics only.
v/worldpolitics is for international or non-US politics.
v/politicalnews is dedicated to virtually censor-free politics and news
v/news is for news around the world.
v/usnews is for domestic news only.
Sort: Top
[–] Balrogic 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
The path to doing away with government is clear. Start behaving, evil corporations!
[–] flyawayhigh 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
This will happen just as surely as people won't use the downVoat button to disagree. Believe in it. :D
[–] BoiseNTheHood 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago (edited ago)
As usual, the Daily Kos gets it wrong. Regulations existed long before 1938. The first regulatory agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was founded in 1877. Back then, large railroad companies were coming under fire at the state level for their unethical practices (mostly unfair rates and rate discrimination) and they needed to shield themselves from further litigation, so they pushed for a weak regulatory body at the federal level to placate the masses. Like always, the federal government hopped into bed with them and started picking winners and losers, setting the precedent for today's government-backed monopolies and oligopolies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Commerce_Commission
[–] Clasm 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
To be fair, most of the deregulation didn't happen until the late 1970s, after a number of responsibilities had been transferred to the Department of Transportation.
Undermining those regulations, however, has been the goal of for-profit corporations since their implementation. Any argument that self-regulation by such companies is possible, or better than, third party commissions is laughable.
[–] let_them_eat_slogans 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Obviously you didn't read the article. The article is not claiming that regulations were invented in 1938, the article is claiming that, generally speaking, regulations come to be as a result of corporate misbehaviour. It uses the 1938 case as an illustrative example.
[–] CaptOblivious [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
As usual, another !right winger thinks that Daily Kos is a singular noun.
The Kos blogger dsteffen wrote that and it is, in fact, a factual account of why those particular regulations were enacted.
You can pretend whatever you wish but that facts are that the MAJORITY of rules and regulations that the neo-libertarians rail against were enacted because some corporate jackass injured people for a profit.