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Party Label BlindnessGB819: January 12, 2020 |
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What I’m noticing, is that a good percentage of America doesn’t understand the internal divisions within each political party. They’d vote for Rand Paul then vote for John McCain and not see the contradiction. Or they’d vote for Hillary and vote for Bernie and not see the contradiction. It’s a bit like support Stalin and Trotksy at the same time or Hitler and Strasser at the same time.
Trump ReferendumGB819: January 12, 2020 |
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Bernie and SocialismGB819: January 11, 2020 |
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People who say Bernie will lose because they’ll hammer him as a socialist, comparing his Democratic socialism to other forms of socialism, are practicing a form of politics that is five years out of date.
It’s not Ronald Reagan’s era. People are fed up with corporations not fed up with government programs that feed the poor.
The only way Bernie will win the general and the nomination is by running hard on the anti-war and anti corporate greed line. If he does anything else he’ll be seen as a sell out. Biden can run in the middle, but Bernie can’t.
Wrong Lesson on John Kerry’s 2004 LossGB819: January 11, 2020 |
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The wrong lesson was learned from the 2004 election. John Kerry did not lose the election because he opposed the war, but Bush stood steady on it and so people voted for the “stronger” commander in chief. Instead, he wavered and argued over tactics but not whether we should be at war. On the contrary, it was a popular opinion that a Democrat who ran against the war (like Obama) would have done better than Kerry. And Kerry came close to Bush, so it’s likely that an anti-war Democrat would have beaten Bush.
On the other hand, an anti-war democrat would have been very polarizing and dividing. But probably victorious.
As far as learning lessons go, FDR did not do anything bold. When Japan and Germany went crazy FDR responded. It’s the wrong lesson to portray America as a cartoon character. Bold decisions have all been failures.
Warren and Trump weak on Tech workersGB819: January 11, 2020 |
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Warren lost her frontrunner status because she appeared to care more about pathways to legal immigration (such as h-1b visas, green cards, amnesy) than American workers. Whereas Sanders appears like he’s doing what he’s doing to stay competitive with Warren, but that he cares more about workers.
Measuring progress only by diversity is like measuring fitness only by weight. There are a lot of other things that determine if we’re making progress or not. Getting white workers removed from their jobs is not progress. (I’m not sure Warren understands this).
Also, Trump has sold out on tech workers. That was the only thing left that I still had to say positive about him. I agreed with him protecting our jobs from people who pretend we aren’t qualified to do them and then hire people with nowhere near the same talent.
War on Iran and American RevolutionGB819: January 11, 2020 |
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On a war with Iran, the best analogy is the American revolution. The British were technically superior, better organized, better suited for conventional warfare. But the American people just didn’t want them there and so guerilla warfare prevailed
Iran would not be an Iraq where American could pretend to win by dividing the population into three groups and setting them against each other. It would be like the American revolution with additional barrier of language – we don’t both speak English.
Democrats not Persuaded Soleimani Attack was Self-DefenseGB819: January 11, 2020 |
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Iran has no Triangle like IraqGB819: January 9, 2020 |
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Nobody won the Iraq war it’s a civil war with a triangle of kurds and then Arabs divided by religion sunni and Shia and the religious divides go deeper like there are millions of different genres of heavy music.
America did not win Afghanistan either as the taliban (not to be confused with al qaeda) is resurgent though unrecognized.
Iran is not like Iraq with the triangle, and it is a unified country. Anyone who thinks the military would slam dunk it on their turf is acting delusional. Guerilla warfare favors a unified population that wants an invader out.
Iran is not above criticism, but don’t listen to the advise of flag wavers who were wrong on Iraq, Libya, Vietnam and Syria and wrong on Obama’s nuclear deal (they said Iran would build a nuke – they were wrong) and wrong on wmd
A side point – I don’t believe Trump colluded with Russia, but I do believe him and Putin had a relatively friendly relationship. I agreed with not impeaching him for collusion with Russia.
I think after this, his relationship with Russia will be ruined.
Sane Policy on WarGB819: January 7, 2020 |
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The only good reason to go to war with another country is that that country is planning to kill American civilians. There’s no other good reason. That includes oil and Israel. it includes corrupt and totalitarian leaders, because if another country wants a version of freedom (which may be different from ours), it needs to initiate that itself.
Why I tolerate Opposing Views (posted on social media)GB819: January 7, 2020 |
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There is not much debate here, but in other places there is. Here is the explanation:
Because I have a lot of experience in debates and I’ve been through intense debates way longer than this. Before America was politically polarized, I had debates in underground circles. I won’t purge you for disagreeing with my politics. It’s short sighted and will just make you double down harder to flip me off.