I'm trying to maintain a roughly 1:1 ratio of pie recipes to policy posts. This isn't about any particular policy, but then the last recipe wasn't a pie. Consider this little morsel a byproduct of policy debates.
The motivation is this: a friend posted a rather partisan castigation of the American voting public on Facebook. The reply thread was hotly partisan, and her next post was effectively an apology for letting people know what her opinions are, because "I won't change mine and you won't change yours."
This, I believe, is exactly the problem with political "debate" today. One of the reasons Pie and Policy exists is to provide a way of evaluating the impacts various policies have on a quirky (but delicious) measure of sustainable prosperity. I hope for vigorous debates about things like taxes, regulations and lattice-vs. crumb- toppings. At all times, please try to keep focused on the (hopefully) shared goal of making the world tastier.
And please, give politicians a break if they change their minds. The world is a rapidly changing place, and being willing to adapt intelligently is much better than staying the course at all costs. As long as you can agree with the reason for the change, it isn't a bad thing.
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