I mean... it IS fiction... but maybe not for long...
Remember how in 2014-15 SV was exhorting how big tech will lead America to paradise and how the free market was the ultimate guarantor of progress? Unintended consequences can be merciless.
I mean... it IS fiction... but maybe not for long...
As far as I am concerned Bernie should stand aside as should Biden. The question should become who can beat trump?
Dunno, probably notSo metoo is officially dead then?
Not disagreeing with you. This Joe is not my guy.All very true, but given how the Republicans were able to turn Hillary's emails into a capital offense, we have to be very careful about how we let candidates expose democrats to charges of hypocrisy and making us lose our credibility. If we keep supporting Biden, that'll hurt us even more when we have to deal with the next Kavanaugh or Roy Moore. Because unfortunately, the American people love False equivlancies, and we shouldn't make them easier for them to make.
Problem is that most Americans don't have the time to be informed of politics. Politics has always been a very time (and money) consuming process even in a democratic republic. Hell, a good portion of them don't even have the time to vote...All very true, but given how the Republicans were able to turn Hillary's emails into a capital offense, we have to be very careful about how we let candidates expose democrats to charges of hypocrisy and making us lose our credibility. If we keep supporting Biden, that'll hurt us even more when we have to deal with the next Kavanaugh or Roy Moore. Because unfortunately, the American people love False equivlancies, and we shouldn't make them easier for them to make.
Trump is the symptom, not the problem. His solutions are to turn the clock backward, build the wall and bring old jobs back. I'm suggesting we do the opposite -- accelerate our economy and society and move us forward to solve the problems that got him there in the first place.
... so a variation of Huey Long's Share our Wealth program? He proposed a universal basic income back in the 1930s (alongside caps on inheritance and incomes), and many of his other programs (particularly the infrastructure programs that brought water and electricity to rural Louisiana) were adopted into the New Deal.Andrew Yang's manifesto:
- Universal basic income of $1,000 for everybody over 18
- Medicare for all
- Human-centered capitalism (trickle-up economy)
I think that Long's plan was much more extreme (cap on income and wealth by using progressive tax with 100% top level). What Yang proposes is business as usual in a significant part of Europe. Except the universal income, but I think there are some experiments with that now, too. Even if he became president and got to really implement it (fat chance), there are still a million more social policies that are commonplace in EU. Our worker protection codes and union codes would seem like pure communism to people in the US.... so a variation of Huey Long's Share our Wealth program? He proposed a universal basic income back in the 1930s (alongside caps on inheritance and incomes), and many of his other programs (particularly the infrastructure programs that brought water and electricity to rural Louisiana) were adopted into the New Deal.
Problem is, he got killed for the very idea of Share our Wealth. Assassinated right on the steps of Louisiana's legislative building by his political enemies.
"dramatically more affordable"Let's keep students in crushing debt forever! The neoliberal guide to reducing inequality.