[bee_rider]

Actually, what are the partisan leanings of the parties actually actively pushing this, since you’ve brought it up?

Despite being fairly left-leaning I wouldn’t automatically blame the right for this particular type of invasive nonsense… is this a centrist spawned nuisance, or something?

[drdaeman]

Aren’t stupidity, shortsightedness, and corruption universal human “values”, well-spread all across the political spectrum?

[cucumber3732842]

>Aren’t stupidity, shortsightedness, and corruption universal human “values”, well-spread all across the political spectrum?

We ostracize and marginalize people for doing all sorts of bad shit that is endemic to humanity because minimizing and eliminating those people's ability to affect society improves society.

The fact that people feel entitled to peddle flimsy "for the children" justifications for obvious enabling of authoritarian government (or any other social ill) is the problem. Those people should be as well received as someone who says we need to re-subjugate blacks because 13/50 or whatever. Nobody makes the excuse "cut them some slack tribalism/racism is a universal human value"

If we treated peddlers of the former the way we treat the latter we'd have a lot less of this problem.