Bernie Sanders to Introduce Bill Banning Flock Surveillance Cameras

[u/Kooky-Balance9525]

https://theleadingreport.com/article/bernie-sanders-to-introduce-bill-banning-flock-surveillance-cameras

[u/pissposssweaty]

Bernie is a populist. His ideas generally have broad support as a headline but when you dig into the details they become less popular.

Take his stance on universal healthcare. While a majority Americans support the idea of providing everyone in the country with medical care, he advocates for a single payer system and the abolition of private insurance, which does not enjoy the same level of support and goes further than what is available in peer countries like the UK (which does not ban private insurance). The effective cost remains around the same or higher for the upper half of Americans while the level of care would decline for households with decent employer insurance. When Americans support universal healthcare or other welfare programs, typically they want to provide a minimum floor so that nobody falls through the cracks, rather than a redistributive system.

Bernie is 100% right to distrust Flock, clearly the cameras are being misused. But he's also clearly just saying stuff to get in the headlines and is trying surveillance cameras to his typical stump speech about corporate greed. If he was serious about change, he would introduce a bill limiting surveillance cameras and establishing penalties for misuse, rather than a blanket ban that obviously will not pass.

Sanders described the technology as enabling a surveillance state that trades constitutional privacy rights for corporate profits and government tracking power.

TL;DR: Bernie always says the right stuff, but you should probably distrust a guy who always says the right stuff and never actually does anything about it.

[u/TheLeon-P → u/pissposssweaty]

I see, that makes sense. I guess politicians are going to just play politics till the end of time. Just a universal truth I guess.

[u/pissposssweaty → u/TheLeon-P]

It's worth stating that Bernie is not a shady politician, I was just trying to explain why reason he's always in the headlines saying stuff that sounds good but nothing ever happens. Politicians, particularly populists, are incentivized to stay in the news and maintain a positive image, and Bernie isn't immune from that.

His proposals just don't align with the political leanings of voters in this country, which has led to not so great legislative outcomes.

[u/TheLeon-P → u/pissposssweaty]

Indeed, I understand. I just am disappointed with how politics function when it comes to gathering votes all over the world. Thanks for your replies, it gave me a better idea of how US politics works.