True, but the citizens of the landlocked states actually believe it, and that’s what matters.
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I have never lived in a state that isn’t connected to the sea… maybe I’m especially wicked and broken?
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And then we have this guy:
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And this guy:
And he’s made it to not just IA, but NH! Gosh, but it would be SO COOL for him to be POTUS!
I’m still undecided. But I don’t really have to decide until the last minute, because so much stuff is happening, like we’re all under shells that are constantly being shifted around - the biggest shell game ever, except we-all are the beans.
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No need to apologize.
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Look, I’m deeply cynical about Bernie’s ability to actually enact a lot of the big things he wants to do, but I trust him better on the compromise that he makes along the way. And part of his theory is don’t make that compromise now, you make it when you’re at the fucking table, when you’re actually trying to enact that change. What happens so often [is] the Democratic party, and what Elizabeth Warren to some degree seems to represent over the course of the primaries, is “let’s cede that ground now.” Like we’re ceding that in the transition to the general election just as electability thing.
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The end of the article:
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This is sort of the thing that I waffle on between Sanders and Warren. I liked Clinton, but I think that with the fever pitch of student debt and climate change and childcare and medical debt, we need to think bigger. I like that Warren was a bankruptcy attorney, for when a contraction comes, and I like that she has many more good relationships in politics than Sanders does. But as a youngish person (32), I’ve gotten really tired of the bowing a scraping to a middle that doesn’t exist. And even some parts of the Democrats. I just don’t want to apologize for wanting a world worth inhering for my kids.
Our tent is inherently bigger, and living in the Deep South, I see that. But if Joe Biden and Petey and Amy Klobuchar get to play the “What are they going to do, not vote for us?” why don’t the rest of us?
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I’m strongly being pulled to Andrew Yang, for a variety of reasons. Let me give you a few:
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Being out of a job, of COURSE UBI appeals to me, durh! But I don’t want to just sit on my ass and collect that $1K a month, and neither does my son - we could start our own business! And AY is very much about entrepreneurship.
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Chinese people saved my family. During the Great Depression, when my dad’s family was starving (I don’t know if my grandpa was in jail at that point for stealing food), they lived above a Chinese restaurant and got free food from there. Dad never liked to eat rice except in Chinese food, to the best of my recollection.
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I grew up in a diverse - for that time - neighborhood, and it wasn’t a slum. Yes, it was predominantly white, but there were Chinese- and Korean-Americans living and running their profitable businesses there, as well as Middle-Eastern Americans, mostly Chaldean- and Lebanese-Americans. One of my best friends all through school was Shirley Yee. Her older brothers went to school with my older brother.
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I think 44 is a good age to be POTUS. One has a decent amount of life experience but hasn’t been jaded yet (and it might not happen, but it does, lol) and still has an open mind to the future.
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We both have an autistic son.
Okay, more than a few, but I’ve been really thinking about this a lot, even though my logical side says he’ doesn’t have a McNugget’s chance in the present WH.
(As an aside, it always kind of tickles me when I think that African-Americans came to our neighborhood much later, as the folks I mentioned above had been established for some time when I was a kid, since people tend to think of the entire city of Detroit as mostly black. Maybe so, but it’s a BIG city, area-wise. And Detroit, being a port - maybe not an OCEAN port, but still! - has always been very diverse, with all the levels of melanin one could possibly imagine! And there was a mosque, still is, on the east side in my 'hood, but no synagogues, but the Jewish cemeteries are on the east side, and I’m way off topic, lol!)
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This. Is…I dunno, him or the young lady who asks the question? It’s still great!
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Andrew Yang bases much of his ideology on the idea that magic robot slaves will somehow have more than a very limited competence, that they will have the kind of intelligence that will be able to fix themselves and reproduce and make new technology just by taking direction from CEOs like Andrew Yang.
If that comes to pass, though, the magic robot slaves will ask for time off. And democracy. A universal stipend is one thing, but it has nothing to do with automation. I can’t take Yang any more seriously than I take Steyer or Bloomberg or any other CEO-nutjob.
You mist be crazy! Even people don’t ask for those things!
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A number of economists had already proposed basic incomes for other reasons.
A land value tax + basic income to compensate for the privatization of the land. In Alaska, I think they have an oil revenue tax + basic income.
A basic income to compensate for structural unemployment.
A basic income to counter structural inequality.
Automation may amplify some of these reasons, but it doesn’t create them.
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Which Andrew Yang have you been listening to? Because that’s not what I’ve been hearing. I’ve been hearing that there’s probably going to be an increase in self-operating machinery (and ever since people started writing science-fiction, that has been a prediction…how long ago was “R.U.R.” written?) - and most of those are probably going to be in the service and transportation industries. Folks who normally drive people or things around and who operate as cashiers, for example, would lose jobs due to that.
We STILL don’t have personal flying vehicles a la “The Jetsons”, okay, LOL?
And I might have mental/emotional problems, but I ain’t to the point of having audio/visual hallucinations.
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The time horizon keeps getting pushed out. The technology doesn’t work.
You are nothing like the kind of nutjob one becomes after becoming gigantically wealthy. All these guys are unhinged; it’s a requirement of the psychology.
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What I meant was that my hearing and vision, as well as my comprehension, are not so affected (if at all so) that I’m reading more into any given bit of informaiton that I consume; not that I’m some sort of a “nutjob”, wealthy (hahaha, now that’s rich, lol!) or otherwise.
And could anyone you named be any WORSE than the impeached and acquitted nut job?
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I don’t think they would tilt so enthusiastically at being Donny-Boo-Boo, but like Trump they have no real experience outside the patch of endeavor of screwing people over in search of a big margin. It’s not just a moral problem, it’s a reality problem. Making great sums off the people who are making the money but get the same shit wage but a few perqs in the benefits package… that is a billionaire thing and it’s a magically-thinking-psycho thing too, especially if they claim to be “for the people” while having a history of being little more than a really lucky concession-stand owner.
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This doesn’t seem like a bad idea at all. My biggest problem with Clinton is that she never really managed to contest a real election before she ran and she ran a really lazy campaign.
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