>who no one else really cares about, and he's invoking some grand criticism of government writ large as a way of bringing urgency and grandeur his idiosyncratic interest that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Everyone with a pet interest levies just about the same criticism at government and it paints a pretty consistent picture.

Whether you wanna develop EV chargers, buy discounted office space and turn it into residential, open a coffee shop, etc, etc, the same stupid government red tape born at the behest of generations of stupid voters who couldn't think a step ahead or about the big picture stand in your way.

>I'm generally in favor of deregulation or deregulation, but I generally feel <bunch of text>

Sounds like "believe in deregulation" only to the extent that you can lie to yourself and say that you do. You really believe in high regulation, but deep down you know that's a bad thing to believe in so you reframe it so you can sleep at night. You are a worse person than one who believes in regulation and is honest with themselves about the tradeoffs of it and has made some assessment that it is still worth it.

If you wanna prevent bad outcomes then make people liable for bad outcomes. The current status quo where all the cost of litigating a bad outcome must be born by every single party up front in the form of surveys, studies, impact assessments, etc, etc, steals money from literally all of us in one way or another, puts some in the pocket of government and puts orders of magnitude more in the pockets of well positioned private parties who government essentially makes work for is beyond insane and anyone who supports it is of bad character.