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I'd just like a rational system where policy changes are proposed along with specific, testable predictions for those policy changes.
Then the policy change is adopted. Evaluated after a little while.
And accepted or rejected based on whether or not the policy change had the intended effect.
Then maybe we could take turns adopting our favorite policies, and see if that nice liberal "inequality reducing" policy actually, you know, reduces inequality (and we could argue about whether it is OK to do if it reduces inequality by making rich people a lot less rich and poor people a little more poor).
Or if that nice libertarian "cost saving" policy actually, you know, saves money (and we could argue about whether the cost savings is worth it if it increases our chances of getting a scalp infection from an unlicensed barber).