Doch die nächste Welle kommt bestimmt -- und ich habe zwei Artikel zum Funktionieren von Verbotslobbies aufgetrieben, die ich hier mal mit jeweils einem interessanten Zitat verlinke.
Christopher Snowdon: Unlearning the lessons of Prohibition
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/1 ... ohibition/On everything from cigarettes and alcohol, to sugar and vaping, the momentum is with the neo-prohibitionists.
Why does it keep happening? In 1931, the journalist George Ade recalled that ‘[t]he non-drinkers had been organising for 50 years and the drinkers had no organisation whatsoever. They had been too busy drinking.’ There is a lot of truth in this quip. Drinkers, smokers, vapers and people with a sweet tooth are many in number, but lack the incentive and ability to fight back against their puritan foes. They are what economists describe as dispersed interest groups under attack from concentrated interest groups. Ordinary people with lives to lead are no match for highly motivated, full-time, professional pressure groups. The Anti-Saloon League was one of the earliest pioneers of the pressure-group model although, unlike many of its modern successors, it was not funded by taxpayers.
Christopher Snowdon: Sock Puppets - How the government lobbies itself and why
https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2 ... signed.pdf[T]here is a deeper problem if government funds and/or creates pressure groups with the intention of creating a ‘sock-puppet’ version of civil society which creates the illusion of grassroots support for new legislation. These state-funded activists engage in direct lobbying (of politicians) and indirect lobbying (of the public) using taxpayers’ money, thereby blurring the distinction between public and private action.
(Also: Wer bezahlt den Lebensunterhalt dieser ganzen Anti-Sexarbeits-"AktivistInnen" eigentlich? - Und warum kommen die verstärkt aus Bundesländern, in denen seit Ewigkeiten die CDU/CSU/ÖVP regiert? Christopher Snowdon kennt die Antwort ;-))