Something to think about: government isn’t always the best tool to solve every cultural ill in society — so anyone setting that up as an expectation is setting up a no-win contest. It’s not going to solve white men’s masculinity issues, for example.
John Kasich recently criticized Biden for not "uniting the country.”
Biden never promised that magic wand outcome.
He did get significant bipartisan legislation passed, but the press one-and-done covered it if at all. But that was his actual job.
@TonyStark I lived in a country where the government determined what the culture is going to be. It was called Soviet Union. Let's just not, okay? The government should reflect the culture, not control it.
There's a different social construct for managing culture, it's called religion, and there's very good reasons to have a strong firewall between that and government.
Want to fix problems with the culture that mess up our politics? Either get your religion to do better or start a new one.
@dmitry Government can and should set standards that are agreed upon and determined by like accessibility standards or equity standards or non-discrimination standards or safety standards or set human rights minimums.
It can’t guarantee everyone gets a wife or that someone a certain set of people don’t like gets canceled or what books and movies people can look at or you end up with state approved everything.
@TonyStark This got me thinking more about how the separation between government, religion, and science is as essential to democracy as the separation between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
They check each other. You can't have a good government if what people need, what they know, and they want is in conflict. You disrupt that balance and you get theocracy, fascism, eugenics, and other shades of evil.
Tony, Pretty Much
Dmitry Borodaenko