so much hate for her among republicans. How can they look at that sweet face of hers and feel anything but adoration?
she really is the American dream tho. Came from middle class, worked her way through school and is now in a very impressive position in politics, which she is using to hold corporations accountable for their shitty actions.
she’s an inspiration and an example of the American dream.
I like the fact that she's under age 80. I also like the fact that she doesn't tow the establishment party line.
But representative? She isn't. Half of Florida think she's Alexandria Ocasio-Castro.
this is as good as a tv show
Trump is a TV show. He's run the presidency like his TV series. Except it got cancelled.
And that makes sense. But the question arises - who's fault is that? The old elites or the nouveau riche elites? I would say the course we have been on, led by the former, hasn't been all that great. So maybe the hope would be the old elite die off and new ones come into power? Not sure, both cold be problems.
I don't know if we can assign any one thing at fault. You could look at it and even say what's at fault is a period of human predictability and stability. Without World Wars and many global pandemics to upset the apple cart, People could project on a linear path, a predictable future, and partake in all the ceremonies of former ruling elites -- graduate degrees, the proper titles and roles at the proper businesses -- but without any of the room made for them to step in.
You could even view someone like Bill Gates and see what he's doing with his own persona and foundation as an end-around to force his money into creating a fake state for his ruling elite policy platform. (For the record, I think he's a douchebag who should just count his ill-gotten billions and stop trying to rule our public lives after the damages he caused.)
And I'm also not sure that finding blame is the right question for this. Sometimes species in nature get overpopulated because of a lack of predators and throw everything out of whack for a while.
That's why we could benefit from a reset, as painful as it may be. But the old elite don't want that reset. Why? Because it would directly threaten their existence. The world economy would collapse and they would probably lose power, unless they become even more authoritarian. The economic course we are on now isn't sustainable if we don't want to keep increasing the wealth gap, which is primarily driven by asset inflation that the average Joe get wrecked on since they don't own anything other than a 401K. The housing scarcity is partly a product of inflation, too, as raw it's become ridiculously expensive to a build a new house from scratch. I was looking to price out a pool for my backyard, but couldn't get any hard estimates from anybody and instead received a response of, our pools cost at least $80,000. $80,000 for someone to dig out a hole and dump some fiberglass into the ground? You know this shit isn't sustainable.
We got resets in major wars and disasters. Here's a crazy thought: maybe climate change is just the thing we need to rebalance the tables??
Because as it is now, all systems are set up to keep reinforcing inequities and there is otherwise nothing to stop it.
But $80k for a pool is nuts. It's not like you're adding a new floor to a house.
My pessimism on government stems from having plenty of examples of it not working in this country, anywhere from a local to national scale. Hell, we can't even pass a secondary, supposedly needed stimulus bill during a pandemic for months. And my personal experiences with folks in government from my last few years in consulting, along with some people I know, only reaffirms my opinion that a lot of this is nonsense. I know people making over 100k on a .gov salary that do nothing but post jobs all day on a website - seriously. So when Democrats want to increase taxes on folks, at least some of those taxes are going to go towards increasing salaries for people rising up their GS levels just for occupying a seat for years without creating any actual value. Now, not all agencies are this pathetic and unneeded, FEMA being a prime example (know some folks there, too, but the same premise remains), but much of this nonsense is unsustainable as well. Add in the fact that government can't solve all problems and look to the private sector in a wide array of functions, you can sort of see my point. I think government should only focus on what is absolutely needed or what it can do well, other than blowing up stuff, of course.
Well, the lack of stimulus bill passing probably has more to do with disagreement and negotiation than laziness or ineptitude per se. And I know more than a few people who would agree with you on the good use of taxpayer money. And I also know some good people in FEMA.
While the government can't solve all problems, the same is true with markets. And then what are we left with? Bill Gates to bail us out? No thanks.
My problem with professional politicians is that they don't create any value. They aren't held to any standard other than a popularity contest. Some local politicians in my area do nothing for years and somehow get re-elected, same with some on the US level. So that automatically creates inefficiencies IMO. So that's why I'm sort of a fan of your lottery system - it would be a safeguard against folks who want use the authority of office for the wrong reasons.
I think the bigger problem with
professional politicians is that they completely lose touch of why they are there and who they represent to begin with.
Case and point: Cali Gov. Gavin Newsom holding a birthday party at the French Laundry restaurant while telling everyone to cancel Thanksgiving because of COVID. Now I ain't the moralizing type who jumps on personal decisions to call out hypocrites the way, say, Fox News does. (Which, IMO, seems like the Republican version of cancel culture, IMO.) But really, dude? Are you that dense and stupid as to not think any of that through? How it looks to the message you send to the sense you are in this with anybody else?
The challenge with professional politicians is that getting reelected is their primary goal. I can't think of many politicians who would rather do the right thing and not get reelected, which is the completely wrong set of priorities we need.
As for the problems with the lottery system? 1. It's not democracy (nobody really gets to vote), 2. like jury duty a lot of people really have no business in a position of authority (and jury selection criteria applied to politicians is a whole other can of worms), etc...
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