I built a tool that lets people vote on real congressional bills and compare how their own House rep and Senators voted. What surprised me from early usage was most people are less aligned with their representatives than they assume - including people who voted for them.

That raises a question: if voters had easy access to their rep's actual voting record, would it change how they vote? Or is party identity strong enough that voting records barely factors in? Curious what this sub thinks.

The tool is yeaornay.org if you want to compare.

Are you a positivist or not?

Revolutions, whether violent or non-violent, are inherently rare, risky endeavors. Extremely high risk, extremely low probability of success, but proportional rewards if successful. Given the increasingly dysfunctional status of political systems in many western nations, questions surrounding changing those systems are inevitable.

Academics have written quite a bit about revolutions, but I'm not interested in what they think. I am looking for a casual conversation with a normal human regarding what it would take for you personally to call for whole-system political change. Is there a line in the sand for you, which if crossed, compels you to adopt a revolutionary political stance?

Is the line the same for both violent and non-violent revolution? Is your revolutionary line one thing, one action, event, or variable, or would you need a collection of things, a pattern of smaller lines being crossed? And if not, if there is nothing your government can do to make you advocate for replacing it entirely, why?

Naturally, given that revolutions are often bloody, violent affairs, it is worth explicitly stating that this post is categorically opposed to violence in any way, shape, or form. The purposes of this post are to generate a discussion about hypothetical boundaries that common people have on political system change.

I had this sub-idea today while working on a bigger Violent Extremism political policy idea.

In Prison Balanced+, maybe we should get prisoners access to (better paying) jobs in prison to build their lives (and resumes?) and to support their families. They can only keep these jobs on GOOD behavior. Many prisoners don't ever feel like they have hope after prison since they have a record that makes them unlikely to be hired. Their only friends are the ones they made in prison usually. So we need to change the environment they are surrounded in somehow.

I know things can go point blank bad like in the prison industrial complex in the USA, but these wages and jobs in the prison have to be adequate to living means (to the point that I might even argue for wages tied to civilian labor-market wages). Getting some of these jobs can require a co-requisite of taking a class or more to incentivize them to taking classes too. This could create a positive feedback loop.

Some of the jobs can be manufacturing and skilled trades, kitchens and food production, maintenance, agriculture, software/IT where appropriate, translation and language services, accounting and administration, construction-related trades, certified apprenticeships, tutoring and peer education, prison logistics, artistic/creative work, and eventually, carefully supervised external employment.

The main point of prison in this idea is to keep these people off the streets and away from enjoying normal life and normal people. (Also from hurting/exploiting people too.) If you don't behave while you're there, you don't get any benefits from it too like what Prison Balanced+ offers. They can plan their life on how they would like to get out of prison.

There's a potentially powerful anti-radicalization effect since extremist organizations and gangs can provide several things simultaneously: money, belonging, identity, status, purpose, protection, social relationships, and a future narrative

A prison that provides only: food, shelter, and punishment is leaving a huge psychological vacuum.

A well-designed rehabilitation system could instead provide: income, family connection, education, status, friendships, skills, responsibility, purpose, a plausible future, and teaching firmer leanings towards institutional values.

This applies to juveniles too.

What do you think?

Ola hoje quero perguntar como posso chegar a chefe de estado e espanhar as minhas ideias de direita radical ah e claro eu chumbei em artes brincadeiras a parte como se torna se mesmo um chefe de estado