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215 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 26 Mar \ on: Squatters Rights? libertarian
I just have to remind myself that the electoral process is slow and lags the issues by possibly multiple years. I think this is a legacy of covid, but also of misguided progressive policies that people are finally waking up to.
In California, the rhetoric of local politicians had been more pro-police and pro law & order than I've ever seen in recent memory. In San Francisco, they voted for tougher laws against homelessness, reversing their decades-long trend of permissiveness. So even though progress is slow, I have some vague hope that the pendulum is finally swinging back in the direction of sanity
I'm glad to hear that local sentiments are turning against this stuff. My concern was that people who realized how screwed up things are were just leaving.
It will still take a long time to reverse all of these policies and replace the DA's and judges supporting them.
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Indeed. One thing that I was surprised by in the last 10 years is how many legal scholars seem to believe that criminals aren't responsible for their own behavior. I'm guessing it's a fad in legal academia, probably reinforced by highly questionable empirical studies, and by their overall lean towards policy-oriented solutions rather than personal responsibility (which, of course, hands more power to the academics).
Ironically, of interest to Bitcoiners: SBF's mother is one such academic promoting these ideas that criminals shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
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The problem is fads in academia become the norm
A lot of progressive ideas are being recycled from 1960 when it was considered fringe
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