The research — which tested populist-based messages versus the cutting-red-tape “Abundance” agenda
Like the article said elsewhere, the two messages are not mutually exclusive. I’m perfectly fine with “cutting-red-tape,” where appropriate. By all means. I just don’t think that will be the panacea that people like Klein seem to think it will be. Plus, I don’t think it’s going to be all that easy. Much of the “red-tape” exists for a reason, often to protect the interests and assets of the wealthy. Does Klein think they’re just going to let him get rid of, for instance, zoning laws that many land owners believe are protecting their property values? Not likely.
So, yeah, the Democrats have got to do better than their (I believe to be naive and out-of-touch) “Abundance” agenda to win me over. Honestly, it just kind of sounds like a recommitment to neoliberalism, as if the neoliberal paradigm that’s been in place for the last fifty years hasn’t been neoliberal enough, and that despite the many failures of neoliberalism, we need to double down on it. I mean, if they want me to stop worrying and learn to love neoliberalism, they must, at a minimum acknowledge the ways in which neoliberalism has failed, and the ways in which the neoliberal technocrats have failed. I want to know that they understand that they’ve gotten some really important stuff wrong, that they’re contrite, and that they’ve learned from their mistakes and that they are wiser now.
I think people like Klein think we should all just do what they tell us because they’re the smartest kids in the room, but they’ve inherited a lot of mistrust. I just don’t trust the neoliberal technocrats anymore, and I haven’t for a while. If they don’t understand why that is, well, that’s the problem.
The problem is they don’t care what we think. They think they can just bully us into voting for the lesser of two evils indefinitely as if the Republicans are not going to fix elections. The Democratic Leadership and power Brokers are hopeless.
Without new leadership we are fucked and 2028 might be our last chance before the fix is in tight. And it will have to be a popular aggressive campaign to overcome the fixes they are going to put in already.
Yeah…It doesn’t even make sense. “Cutting red tape” doesn’t equal “abundance.” The very idea that there would be abundance if not for “red tape” - i.e. regulations - is a fundamental conservative myth, so the survey is nonsense.
Like the article said elsewhere, the two messages are not mutually exclusive. I’m perfectly fine with “cutting-red-tape,” where appropriate. By all means. I just don’t think that will be the panacea that people like Klein seem to think it will be. Plus, I don’t think it’s going to be all that easy. Much of the “red-tape” exists for a reason, often to protect the interests and assets of the wealthy. Does Klein think they’re just going to let him get rid of, for instance, zoning laws that many land owners believe are protecting their property values? Not likely.
So, yeah, the Democrats have got to do better than their (I believe to be naive and out-of-touch) “Abundance” agenda to win me over. Honestly, it just kind of sounds like a recommitment to neoliberalism, as if the neoliberal paradigm that’s been in place for the last fifty years hasn’t been neoliberal enough, and that despite the many failures of neoliberalism, we need to double down on it. I mean, if they want me to stop worrying and learn to love neoliberalism, they must, at a minimum acknowledge the ways in which neoliberalism has failed, and the ways in which the neoliberal technocrats have failed. I want to know that they understand that they’ve gotten some really important stuff wrong, that they’re contrite, and that they’ve learned from their mistakes and that they are wiser now.
I think people like Klein think we should all just do what they tell us because they’re the smartest kids in the room, but they’ve inherited a lot of mistrust. I just don’t trust the neoliberal technocrats anymore, and I haven’t for a while. If they don’t understand why that is, well, that’s the problem.
The problem is they don’t care what we think. They think they can just bully us into voting for the lesser of two evils indefinitely as if the Republicans are not going to fix elections. The Democratic Leadership and power Brokers are hopeless.
Without new leadership we are fucked and 2028 might be our last chance before the fix is in tight. And it will have to be a popular aggressive campaign to overcome the fixes they are going to put in already.
Yeah…It doesn’t even make sense. “Cutting red tape” doesn’t equal “abundance.” The very idea that there would be abundance if not for “red tape” - i.e. regulations - is a fundamental conservative myth, so the survey is nonsense.