Kudos to you for not "getting" the focus on inequality.
I highly recommend Tyler Cowen's short book "Stubborn Attachments"; I think you would find it very appealing.
As you get older and learn more, and realize the importance of pro-abundance policies (almost no matter what you care about other than selfish special interests, and most certainly if you care about the less well off), I predict you will become more libertarian.
And vote more for GOP candidates than Dems, since imperfect though the GOP is, it is simply fact that the GOP is closer to being pro-abundance than the Dems, and the chances of this changing at the national level are vanishingly small.
Curious as to what you mean by Housing being an issue where the left mostly got it right? As far as I can see that’s been on of the right’s biggest successes (compare New York and California on housing to Texas and Florida).
Liberals have the right theory on housing which is to build more of it. Now they happen to be outnumbered by the far left who disagrees with them. That’s why I’ve moved from the left to the center left.
Are you talking about the Noah Smith/Ezra Klein type liberals? Because 100% agree they are for building housing. I’m doubtful that they actually represent (currently) that large of a swath of liberal opinion, hoping that it does grow.
I think Ezra's gambit is that the left is addicted to losing and that he has the NYT/Mainstream media/Tastemakers on his side. Cons always say that liberals are too trusting of experts and all of their movements are astroturfed. Which is just another way of saying that liberals get their opinions from the top of the liberal hierarchy.
Recall that Ezra literally began the boulder that snowballed into Biden leaving the race. These are not people to take lightly.
Oh God, I am *so* that person that tells other people they don't hate maths, they just never had a good maths teacher.
Interesting read. Always love seeing people’s political journeys
Kudos to you for not "getting" the focus on inequality.
I highly recommend Tyler Cowen's short book "Stubborn Attachments"; I think you would find it very appealing.
As you get older and learn more, and realize the importance of pro-abundance policies (almost no matter what you care about other than selfish special interests, and most certainly if you care about the less well off), I predict you will become more libertarian.
And vote more for GOP candidates than Dems, since imperfect though the GOP is, it is simply fact that the GOP is closer to being pro-abundance than the Dems, and the chances of this changing at the national level are vanishingly small.
Curious as to what you mean by Housing being an issue where the left mostly got it right? As far as I can see that’s been on of the right’s biggest successes (compare New York and California on housing to Texas and Florida).
Liberals have the right theory on housing which is to build more of it. Now they happen to be outnumbered by the far left who disagrees with them. That’s why I’ve moved from the left to the center left.
Are you talking about the Noah Smith/Ezra Klein type liberals? Because 100% agree they are for building housing. I’m doubtful that they actually represent (currently) that large of a swath of liberal opinion, hoping that it does grow.
I think Ezra's gambit is that the left is addicted to losing and that he has the NYT/Mainstream media/Tastemakers on his side. Cons always say that liberals are too trusting of experts and all of their movements are astroturfed. Which is just another way of saying that liberals get their opinions from the top of the liberal hierarchy.
Recall that Ezra literally began the boulder that snowballed into Biden leaving the race. These are not people to take lightly.