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Whenever I suspect that politicians might be writing a "power-grab" law, the one sure way I know to confirm it, is to start looking for immunity clauses. They know they are doing something bad that would require the "immunity" or else they wouldn't preemptively put it there.

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Whenever I suspect that politicians might be writing a "power-grab" law, the one sure way I know to confirm it

A second way to detect it is to look for the word "bipartisan". If politicians on both sides support it, there's a very good chance that the group being screwed is the public.

> A second way to detect it is to look for the word "bipartisan".

My key is the word "reform". It's almost always used to label something that's going to make things significantly worse.

Bipartisan just means whatever is in the middle of the window of acceptable discourse, which then shrinks further into nothing, until they're no longer debating what policy should be, but merely who should implement it.

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