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It goes through all that just to set up its ultimate agenda at the end, blame the right: > people on the political right often criticize public investment as w
by autokad 4y ago
It goes through all that just to set up its ultimate agenda at the end, blame the right:
> people on the political right often criticize public investment as wasteful and corrupt, but the reality is that the retreat of the state hasn’t resulted in some idyllic “free” market — it has just left wealthy, powerful, and ultimately unaccountable people in charge of shaping the economy.
which is hilarious, given that these companies exist in the most left geographies, owned and run by the most left oligarchs, owned by the left politicians, and it was the left policies forcing people to use these companies that entrenched them to begin with.
- gretch 4y agoCan you explain when you said "left policies forcing people to use these companies that entrenched them". I can think of no instances of this
- autokad 4y agolockdowns, there's 1.
- taylodl 4y agolibertarian != left I think you’ve forgotten that one of the most influential neocons, Ronald Reagan, hailed from California. As did Nixon, interestingly enough. California != bastion of liberalism
- mrguyorama 4y agoCalifornia still has more conservative thinkers and voters than nearly any other state in the union, they just get somewhat disenfranchised by the way voting works in the US.