Oren writes. "A sane elite would learn their lesson from a result as clean and clear as this one, recognize that on its current trajectory American politics will only head further away from what they want, and refashion their expectations and activities accordingly." Here is where Oren's effort to cram progressive economic policy into a …
Oren writes. "A sane elite would learn their lesson from a result as clean and clear as this one, recognize that on its current trajectory American politics will only head further away from what they want, and refashion their expectations and activities accordingly." Here is where Oren's effort to cram progressive economic policy into a conservative shell undermines his own essential assertions. The Elite that structurally opposes workers is the Financial Elite, not some vague cultural left elite. In his comment above he is clearly referring to Democrats as elites. That is both reflexively unthinkingly divisive and factually incorrect.
Trump is the financial elite. The Republican Brand that Trump is upsetting is the financial elite. The financial elite benefited profoundly from Trump's policy the last time. The inflationary effect of Trump's unnecessary tax cuts was masked by the disruptions of the pandemic and "free money" people got during it. Biden paid the price for that.
Own needs to keep straight, in his arguments and his thinking, the groups he conflates. The financial elite is one. There are social liberals, conservatives and quite a lot of libertarians in that group. That are 99% united on keeping power to themselves. Very very few display enlightened self interest.
The other group is workers. It turns out Democrats are workers as are Republicans. Here's another crucial distinction, the Democratic party doesn't represent democratic voters any more than the Republican party does. If they did, big money would be named from politics and we would have universal health care. That's true for Republican and Democratic voters, and false obviously for both parties.
It's the financial elite vs everyone else. Both sides of the financial elite gin up social conflict, as Oren is doing, among voters. The reason should be obvious.
"Shaking things up" with "Trump can fix it" as the plan is generously described as dangerous. But I'm open minded. Let's see what he can do. He's got a strong start with Biden's economy. We'll all learn something in the next 4 years.
Oren writes. "A sane elite would learn their lesson from a result as clean and clear as this one, recognize that on its current trajectory American politics will only head further away from what they want, and refashion their expectations and activities accordingly." Here is where Oren's effort to cram progressive economic policy into a conservative shell undermines his own essential assertions. The Elite that structurally opposes workers is the Financial Elite, not some vague cultural left elite. In his comment above he is clearly referring to Democrats as elites. That is both reflexively unthinkingly divisive and factually incorrect.
Trump is the financial elite. The Republican Brand that Trump is upsetting is the financial elite. The financial elite benefited profoundly from Trump's policy the last time. The inflationary effect of Trump's unnecessary tax cuts was masked by the disruptions of the pandemic and "free money" people got during it. Biden paid the price for that.
Own needs to keep straight, in his arguments and his thinking, the groups he conflates. The financial elite is one. There are social liberals, conservatives and quite a lot of libertarians in that group. That are 99% united on keeping power to themselves. Very very few display enlightened self interest.
The other group is workers. It turns out Democrats are workers as are Republicans. Here's another crucial distinction, the Democratic party doesn't represent democratic voters any more than the Republican party does. If they did, big money would be named from politics and we would have universal health care. That's true for Republican and Democratic voters, and false obviously for both parties.
It's the financial elite vs everyone else. Both sides of the financial elite gin up social conflict, as Oren is doing, among voters. The reason should be obvious.
"Shaking things up" with "Trump can fix it" as the plan is generously described as dangerous. But I'm open minded. Let's see what he can do. He's got a strong start with Biden's economy. We'll all learn something in the next 4 years.