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"the right response is to ignore the masses and follow my preferred social policies, because the only reason someone would disagree is if they've been taken in
by DuskStar 6y ago
"the right response is to ignore the masses and follow my preferred social policies, because the only reason someone would disagree is if they've been taken in by corporate propaganda"
That's the only way I can really parse your statement.
What would it take for you to believe that a large fraction of people genuinely do not want the policies you support?
- claudeganon 6y agoThe masses aren’t militia cosplayers camped outside a Baskin Robbins. They’re retail workers, nurses, bus drivers, etc for whom social democratic policies poll at comfortable majorities. And they’re writing op-eds asking not to be sacrificed for the sake of the economy. What do you think it would take for you to realize this?
- DuskStar 6y agoI notice a distinct lack of "construction workers", "farmers", "truck drivers" and the like in your list. Also generally regarded as "the masses", and also generally against those social democratic policies. (which you haven't named, but I'm going to assume the normal grab bag) I'm sure you could easily find some willing to write an op-ed in favor of reopening soon. You'd have a hell of a time getting it published in the NYTimes, of course.
- claudeganon 6y agoI grew up in a farming community in Michigan, my little brother works construction, and my high school sweetheart was a truck driver’s daughter. I get you just fled here from Los Angeles, but you still seem to be still getting your bearings.
- DuskStar 6y agoAnd I grew up in Michigan, and went to school in Michigan. What's your point? That I can't say "there are conservative people out there" because I spent a few years in LA? For that matter, if you grew up in rural Michigan, why are you asserting that everyone agrees with social democrat policies?
- claudeganon 6y agoI never said everyone supports social democratic policies. I said a comfortable majority does, which is true. Having grown up in rural Michigan, I'm also quite familiar with bosses at Amway, Steelcase, and GM dressing up their politics as those of the working poor, when that's far from the truth.