President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of people who were convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands and in the District of Columbia.
Purity tests all the way down and it’s why populism never actually works. You can’t be happy, even a little bit, about incremental progress if the “real problem” hasn’t been dealt with. That problem will always be broad and impossible to truly achieve outside of theory. You end up with an ideology just centered around anger and despair.
People who do this shit maintain positions they know are practically unworkable because the thing they fear most is actually having to govern and make difficult choices in the real world and then answer for the consequences of those decisions. It’s much easier to just loudly state a preference for fantasy.
Purity tests all the way down and it’s why populism never actually works. You can’t be happy, even a little bit, about incremental progress if the “real problem” hasn’t been dealt with. That problem will always be broad and impossible to truly achieve outside of theory. You end up with an ideology just centered around anger and despair.
People who do this shit maintain positions they know are practically unworkable because the thing they fear most is actually having to govern and make difficult choices in the real world and then answer for the consequences of those decisions. It’s much easier to just loudly state a preference for fantasy.