Not here dude. And Andrew Yang is in roughly the same ideological place as Bernie, so you’re embarrassing yourself.
I’m not a Yangganger, like at all, but the Freedom Dividend if passed would be one of the most progressive policies in the history of the United States. More progressive than Social Security and Medicare, and it’s not even close.
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The core tension in addressing poor whites is that they simultaneously a) are racist as fuck and always have been, even and especially when they were doing well economically, and b) they have every right to be pissed off at being sold out economically by the entire political class, including and especially elected Democrats.
Since badgering them into being better people clearly doesn’t work, I’m all for just giving them shit and hoping for the best at this point. There are too fucking many of them to just write them off.
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Stacey Abrams will be on Colbert on Monday.
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Here’s hoping this Georgia-native can convince the cultists over the next couple of months that the process and counting is rigged, and they shouldn’t even bother showing up since the Democrats will cheat to win anyway.
Ok, I agree. Thanks for dismissing me without calling me a racist.
I mean you called a guy within 5 basis points of Bernie a Republican. You’re just going to get dismissed then. It wasn’t meant in poor humor, there are plenty of candidates I don’t know shit about either… and honestly as bad as the media treated Bernie this cycle they found a way to be shittier to Yang. Bernie people should be pissed off about that alone just on ‘don’t be a hypocrite’ grounds. It’s not good when they do it to Bernie, and it’s not good when they do it to other leftists, of whom Yang is one.
I think Yang has a lot to prove and room to improve but I think he deserves that chance, seems like a good person too. He belongs in the conversation.
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Don’t have a problem with you being dismissive on this one. Clearly, Yang isn’t a Republican.
But, he is trying to implement the Freedom Dividend in the most conservative way possible, by forcing others already on aid to choose between that and the dividend.
He’s also utterly incapable of talking about race.
So, what does this mean? It means there’s a lot of merit to the idea that he is better at convincing Republicans. But it’s not because he’s some kind of genius. It’s because he’s ideologically a lot closer to them and is made uncomfortable by the same things that make them uncomfortable. Tapping into their fears of job loss is also a great strategy because their brains are much more motivated by fear, but this is also a very conservative impulse.
So I’m largely in agreement with you and skydiver and Cheese. But it’s not because he’s some super slick genius. The reason he can talk to them is because he’s a whole lot closer to them. I am sure he is a libertarian turned liberal and is still carrying that baggage.
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In what way does he struggle to talk about race?
He just won’t do it. Like, when he gets asked about it, he pivots to the Freedom Dividend.
Does he talk about it in his book?
Yes in detail, and you’re wrong he responds by rattling off all of the relevant and damning statistics and then correctly points out that his policies disproportionately benefit African Americans. It acknowledges the scale of the problem but keeps his white supporters from going off… And that’s a good thing.
You really think Dave Chappelle went hard for a guy who doesn’t get racial issues?
This is what happened to Yang. Most of what I see from straight up informed people about him is straight up misleading. They literally opened coverage on him by implying that he was a white supremacist because he was doing really well with conservatives. That’s why a lot of you think he’s sus. The first few things you heard about him we’re negative and the first time you saw him work it was in a straight up game show format designed to prevent anything of substance from being discussed… Which is not ideal when your whole campaign strategy is to sell substance.
The fact that they are using the same demonization strat they are using vs aoc and Bernie is a pretty big endorsement IMO.
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making the race national which they will only makes it more difficult I think.
Not that it probably matters, dems are pretty sizable dogs here unfortunately, it’s really hard to turn the underdog team twice.
2008 in GA had a runoff, first race 3, runoff they won by 15. Dem barely got over half his vote count from the reg election.
fun fact, everyone’s favorite GA turncoat vernon jones was involved in this, won the primary by 30k votes then nobody voted for him in the runoff (seriously he lost 70k votes from the primary to the runoff, the other guy gained them).
Even worse, if dems had won we wouldn’t hate Joe Lieberman because he wouldn’t have been able to do jack shit.
The domino effect is absurd.
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Just requested two absentee ballots for my household. Let’s go.
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Why not request two dozen? Soros pays double for every extra ballot.
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1000% match!
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I care about these races more than anything other than my family but zero chance I donate through actblue unless and until those fuckers demonstrate a baseline level of competence.
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Does it even fucking matter? Like, maybe I’m wrong about forcing Warnock to drag Ossoff. The game is 2022 now.
https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1325951672145883138?s=20
Get your ossof the couch and vote for this guy
https://twitter.com/jackallisonlol/status/1326188792852541444?s=21
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