Why is the left so politically incompetent in the US and UK? Their politics are pure Jesus, yet most "Christians" support anti-Christian, right-wing policies. Left policies help average people, the right's policies hurt them. Yet many of those who suffer vote for the party making them suffer.
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Tell me about it.
The latest in my series of posts about stupid arguments by libertarians and conservatives against socialism and the welfare state. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
median pay
At many big companies, media pay is so low that workers qualify for welfare benefits--and need them to survive. ips-dc.org/report-ameri...
In his mind, Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize today. (But only if Israel rather than Norway awards the prize.)
The US (the Union) held regular elections in 1862 and 1864. I don't know abou the Confederacy.
That Congress didn't authorize Trump's war against Iran is the weakest possible argument against it. Argue the substance, not the procedure.
About the same percentage that belong to MAGA. Coincidence?
Biden kept all of Trump's tariffs. They could have been abolished with a signature.
Everyone thinks Democrats are wusses. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
Democrats can always be depended upon to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. That's why Susan Collins is still in the Senate.
There are two problems. The media lack the resources to cover the war competently. Second, American media think access to Moscow is more important and they won't risk alienating Putin by covering Ukraine favorably.
I'd rather concentrate on Hayek because he seems to still have a lot of influence on the right, whereas I don't hear much about Friedman anymore. substack.com/@brucebartle...
Some famous economists who were socialists--and not a Marxist among them. open.substack.com/pub/brucebar...
The collapse of the Soviet Union was sudden and unexpected. Maybe the collapse of Putin will be the same.
Everyone on the center-left is feckless by nature. Only the hard left has balls. But the hard left cannot win. Therefore, its primary job is to keep pressure on the center-left, stiffen its spine, and keep it from drifting right.
What I said is I vote sane over crazy every time.
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
