Atlantis
09-20-2022, 08:53 PM
If 40% of your customers are complaining about your business' products or services being of poor quality, only a terrible business owner would say, oh, that's not a majority so until 50.1% say it we should fix it, we'll just wait.
Likewise, if 40% of Americans believe that X is a problem that needs to be fixed, just fix it, assuming that the rest of the country will eventually catch on.
50% might be a nice round number that SEEMS to make sense from a decision-making standpoint...right? Maybe for some decisions it is... but from a national perspective, 40% is 100 million+ people.
I.e. If 70% of Republicans want to do X, but 80% of Democrats don't, which ends up with something like 40% of Americans overall wanting to do X, Democrats should just give in and let the Republicans do it. (example border enforcement)
Likewise, if 70% of Democrats want to do X, but 80% of Republicans don't, which ends up again with something like 40% of Americans as a whole wanting to do X, Republicans should just give in and let the Democrats go forward with it. (example: universal healthcare)
This way, everyone gets more of what they want. 51% is an artificial number that seems to be the only number that makes sense for decision-making. Maybe for decisions like whether to go to war or not it makes sense but for domestic legislation, it doesn't seem to at least from my view.
Likewise, if 40% of Americans believe that X is a problem that needs to be fixed, just fix it, assuming that the rest of the country will eventually catch on.
50% might be a nice round number that SEEMS to make sense from a decision-making standpoint...right? Maybe for some decisions it is... but from a national perspective, 40% is 100 million+ people.
I.e. If 70% of Republicans want to do X, but 80% of Democrats don't, which ends up with something like 40% of Americans overall wanting to do X, Democrats should just give in and let the Republicans do it. (example border enforcement)
Likewise, if 70% of Democrats want to do X, but 80% of Republicans don't, which ends up again with something like 40% of Americans as a whole wanting to do X, Republicans should just give in and let the Democrats go forward with it. (example: universal healthcare)
This way, everyone gets more of what they want. 51% is an artificial number that seems to be the only number that makes sense for decision-making. Maybe for decisions like whether to go to war or not it makes sense but for domestic legislation, it doesn't seem to at least from my view.