340 sats \ 9 replies \ @kepford 18 Feb \ on: Seeing The US Economy Through A Liberal's Eyes econ
Its quite jarring that people can be so blind and uncritical of their own side. I think they look at the other side and think well they can't be right so we must be. I dunno.
I drive around and see the homeless and think who in their right mind would buy these numbers ? But then I know the books are cooked. These people believe their own bullshit. They think the red team is the opposite instead of the truth. The "opposition" is just driving the speed limit off the cliff. Not going in the opposite direction.
Its jarring to listen to these people. Its a huge reason why I don't think we win with reason alone. You have to have a better system. A system that they don't vote for. It just wins. It just works. These people are blind in many ways.
I don't think we win with reason alone.
This is such an important insight and I think it's hard for our side (whatever that is exactly) to understand it.
Most people are more about their feelings and fitting in, than adhering to the most rigorous philosophical system. If we want to succeed, we have to meet them where they are, somehow.
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Fight fire with fire.
The right believes we can win in the market place of ideas.
That market no longer exists.
We win by selecting the right people: judges, political operatives, candidates, etc.
By right candidates I mean populists and outsiders and effective governors like Abbott and DeSantis.
Real judges like Alito , Thomas , Scalia, Gorsuch, federalist society members.
Congratulations on overturning Roe and affirmative action
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For the most part, I'd say that's just not going to get us very far. "The right people" seem to be, at best, unreliably willing to stand up to the worst excesses of the state.
Recall that the great hero of the Covid tyranny, Ron DeSantis, still put 20 million people on something like house arrest for several weeks without even a whiff of due process. I do applaud him for reaching the right conclusion quicker than his peers and holding his ground in the face of the biggest propaganda campaign I've ever seen, but a principled defender of human rights he is not.
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We can do a lot worse than Governor Ron
He is also a smart lawyer
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We don’t have human rights in USA.
We have property rights, bill of rights and civil rights.
Human rights are the mantra of homeless activists and undocumented immigrants
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The right people will never be perfect.
The perfect person doesn’t exist
What DeSantis incident are you referring to? Do you have a link?
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Can you elaborate?
Meet them? Who is them?
Where they are?
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A better system of government?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by system ?
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The left says they are the party of truth and science and any one who disagrees is anti science and anti truth.
Even here on SN, leftists start their comments with you have been duped by propaganda
In other words you are gullible and stupid and anti science
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