WaxedWookie

You think they have a single fuck to give about mandates? They've got the power - they're itching to use it. Good luck everyone.

Good thing we've sacrificed that relative utopia to solve all those problems, eh?

Can't have those uppity workers understanding what you're trying to inflict upon them...

It would have been uncivil - and as we all know, the most effective way to fight fascism is by letting them run roughshod over you while smugly pointing out how correct you are, and that they're breaking the rules while adjusting your policies to be a watered down version of the fascists, exciting the fascists, liberals, and leftists at the end time.

If the Dems get another election and don't pick a left populist like Sanders, they're finished.

Scratch a liberal...

MF's failing to understand reluctantly choosing the lesser of two evils, being able to criticise both.

Right sentiment, wrong solution.

You don't fix workers' problems by being a dick to them and making it hard for them to afford to live - you fix workers' problems by inflicting the pain on the decision makers - employers and legislators.

What's going on with MTG right now? Release the results of the congressional investigations, allowing the crooks and paedophiles to be driven out as the cripplingly stupid welfare queen red states seceed to starve as the blue states enter an era of prosperity... Broken clocks and whatnot, I suppose.

In markets the typical response to a sudden shortage is an ________ in ______, leading to a reduction in demand, as the demand shifts to alternatives (other destinations, non-consumption) until a new equilibrium is found.

That's right - an increase in pricing reduces demand by pushing people to alternatives, reducing demand.

Thank you - that's interesting - particularly the quote about making him uncomfortable.

I'm surprised that the shifting Overton window, which has left the Democrats far closer to Reagan than MAGA, (who are busy speed-running fascism) hasn't swept up more Reaganites, but that boils down to naivete on my part, I think.

Whatever the case, I certainly agree that the Dems need to move from institutional neolib/neocon positions to populist left positions, but that's the last place the party wants to go - even when failure to do so represents an existential threat to the party.

I know nothing of his work, but my immediate assumption is that he's just a contrarian asshole that has no actual principles.

In media (as in politics), this kind of thing is almost always a product of cynical expediency rather than sincere introspection.