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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • A few reasons, but most probably because the party doesn’t really care about children at all. In this context, ideas like ‘family values’ or ‘protecting children’ are used as tools to appeal to the emotions of the uninformed potential voter, and as bad faith arguments to undermine more serious political views and policies. In the context of passing legislation, these ideas are often used as ‘set dressing’ to make it harder to oppose bad policy. For example, calling an online censorship bill a ‘child safety bill’. The bill has nothing at all to do with child safety. The name is simply designed to affect uninformed casual perception, and to tar opponents in a similar manner. These people don’t care about children. They care about money, maintaining power to get more money, and having a lot of people struggling financially so they can be easily exploited to get more money. They are mentally unwell. Unfortunately there appears as yet to be no consensus on why people like this should not be in charge. I’ll let you know if I think of anything, please do likewise.