Right wing stepping up attacks on renewable energy

[kristopher]

43. This isn't fighting.

I had assumed you read the thread and I have no idea what you mean by a policy that "dictates speech". Letting you know that isn't "fighting" as I understand the term.

I know of no policy that can perform the "dictate speech" function; policies can limit speech or they can enhance speech by providing information.

What went on behind the scenes with the DU2 policy of not posting from certain right wing websites? I don't know the antecedents of that but I suspect it is an attempt to address the same problem I'm concerned with here. Depending on the way it was done in the background it might provide a model for that I and others (see poll) see a need for.

I don't have a concrete plan in mind here, I opened it for discussion with the hopes of exploring the way it might be done. How about some help?

ETA: Do you know why regulation is needed to meet demand for social goods that generally everyone agrees are needed? It is a fundamental schism between right and left, so I believe that being aware of the results of research in the area is important. I don't have specific references since it is part of economics classes long in the past, but here is the meat of the matter. I am not accusing you or anyone else of being a conservative, but the argument they make is an emotionally appealing one that captures us more often than we realize.

The conservative ideological approach says that allowing people to meet these needs through voluntary contributions is the best way to address them. The point to the works of church and charitable giving etc where the action is centered on the initiative of an individual to address the problems that are most on their radar.

However when you do very high quality research involving extensive interviewing an polling to determine the level of resources people believe we should dedicate to providing for those social goods you establish a baseline for reference. When you compare the results of the approach fostered by conservative ideology you discover that the provision of the social goods always falls far short of where the social consensus says it should be.

There are a lot of reasons for this which I couldn't list without researching the literature, but I believe the idea applies to the issue at hand when we think of whether to pursue an approach to this problem that is rooted purely in individual initiave or whether to organize a programmatic response to deal with it.