2016 Postmortem

portlander23

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20. kill jobs is literally the right-wing position

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 11:54 PM

Dec 2016

"kill jobs is literally the right-wing position. " - it's an observable fact in Seattle: there's nothing here to make me question the data: http://www.aei.org/publication/early-evidence-suggests-that-seattles-radical-experiment-might-be-a-model-for-the-rest-of-the-nation-not-to-follow/

You do realize that the American Enterprise Institute is a right wing think tank and that AEI staff members were the architects of the Bush public and foreign policy? People like John R. Bolton, Lynne Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz? I'm not trying being dismissive when I say this is the right-wing position, I'm trying to be descriptive.

We do have disagreements, but I don't think they're skin deep. I would also disagree that conservatives don't agree with liberal on core problems- conservatives are the heroes of their own narrative and want the country to be better. They just have a very different world view of what that means.

Similarly I do think there is a idealogical difference between the pre-DLC view and the post view and I don't know how that gets resolved.

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is the data cited wrong? JHan Dec 2016 #21

Yes, the report is wrong portlander23 Dec 2016 #22

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