I agree in part; I confess I was more thinking of the laxer “could be uncontroversial in a few years” standard (and more thinking of problems than policies). But at the least, I think narrow reforms in all but 5 and 10 could be uncontroversial. We don’t need to abolish the FDA or “Buy American” to make improvements.
Aside from biosecurity and possibly medical license reciprocity, I think these are all pretty controversial.
Without checking the numbers, I’m pretty sure at least some of 7 and 9 are also quite popular (and maybe part of 6, depending on scope and framing). And parts of 4 wouldn’t have opponents.
Edit in brief reply to korin’s reply below: I agree a little, and I apologize for not elaborating on solutions. But the following would all have few enemies if done well: make hospitals transparent, make hospitals better able to talk to each other, nationalize prisons, give body cams teeth, abolish qualified immunity, abolish bail.
I suspect part of why these seem uncontroversial is that they’re not specific enough. Everyone agrees that we should make hospitals/housing/criminal justice better, but if you actually propose a specific policy to do that it, will give money to corporate interests/be socialist/make things better for ‘bad’ people/make some subgroup worse off/etc.
Aside from biosecurity and possibly medical license reciprocity, I think these are all pretty controversial.
Outside of LessWrong, everyone loves the FDA and how they “protect” us.
The IRS funding plan was discussed in NR (a major Republican media company): https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/when-it-comes-to-the-irs-bigger-is-not-better/
Housing reform would allow undesirable people to buy houses, and would probably make house prices drop.
Corporate welfare “creates jobs”.
etc.
Not saying any of these are bad ideas, but they’re not uncontroversial.
I agree in part; I confess I was more thinking of the laxer “could be uncontroversial in a few years” standard (and more thinking of problems than policies). But at the least, I think narrow reforms in all but 5 and 10 could be uncontroversial. We don’t need to abolish the FDA or “Buy American” to make improvements.
Without checking the numbers, I’m pretty sure at least some of 7 and 9 are also quite popular (and maybe part of 6, depending on scope and framing). And parts of 4 wouldn’t have opponents.
Edit in brief reply to korin’s reply below: I agree a little, and I apologize for not elaborating on solutions. But the following would all have few enemies if done well: make hospitals transparent, make hospitals better able to talk to each other, nationalize prisons, give body cams teeth, abolish qualified immunity, abolish bail.
I suspect part of why these seem uncontroversial is that they’re not specific enough. Everyone agrees that we should make hospitals/housing/criminal justice better, but if you actually propose a specific policy to do that it, will give money to corporate interests/be socialist/make things better for ‘bad’ people/make some subgroup worse off/etc.