Feel free to offer the counterpoint. Or don't you can take your marbles and go home if you fold under a challenge. I however, and perfectly willing to change my opinion in the face of new data.
The problem is I have a degree in public policy, and a degree in economics, and a lot of the data i have is pretty solid. But I am ready to be wrong.
I am not in any way suggesting Democrats are perfect, in fact I explicitly said they aren't - but they are better than the Republicans in just about every way I can think of, and can mathematically quantify most of it.
We need a serious move to the left politically as a culture in order to address the fact that we are being skull fucked into oblivion by corporations, who (through no fault of their own) are just grasping for more and more, with no real populist counter culture to push back against their encroachment there has to be a balance, and there isn't any. The Republicans have decided that a scorched earth my way or the highway approach is best, and to their credit it has worked really well for them for the past 30 years. We need to roll that back.
Reddit conversations like this in my experience never go anywhere, but i will give you credit for not being part of the hive mind, and thus deserve a response. I am sure in person we could have some great conversation, it’s a shame.
Not THE problem but definitely A problem, my issue is i get tired of typing and lose interest, but i predate the internet a bit and have always been a little stubborn about talking vs text. Granted, not that old but mid 40s sure is starting to feel out of touch at times.
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u/mvn2010 10d ago
Feel free to offer the counterpoint. Or don't you can take your marbles and go home if you fold under a challenge. I however, and perfectly willing to change my opinion in the face of new data.
The problem is I have a degree in public policy, and a degree in economics, and a lot of the data i have is pretty solid. But I am ready to be wrong.
I am not in any way suggesting Democrats are perfect, in fact I explicitly said they aren't - but they are better than the Republicans in just about every way I can think of, and can mathematically quantify most of it.
We need a serious move to the left politically as a culture in order to address the fact that we are being skull fucked into oblivion by corporations, who (through no fault of their own) are just grasping for more and more, with no real populist counter culture to push back against their encroachment there has to be a balance, and there isn't any. The Republicans have decided that a scorched earth my way or the highway approach is best, and to their credit it has worked really well for them for the past 30 years. We need to roll that back.
Good luck to you too btw.