"These voters, quite simply, want to be richer and have more stuff."
I'm not so sure that this is more important than extending status to working class jobs we have written off as undeserving. The sequestering of status by the words and numbers folks, making the DOGE boys into little gods while the people who make the country work get nada, may not be an easy thing to reverse but the subject must be addressed.
Leftists only care about obstructing Trump, open borders, and tranny grooming our kids. They don’t care about the economics of affordability, especially since all they’re focused on is raising taxes in California, Washington, New York, Virginia, Colorado, and Illinois. Somehow, they think, taxes will create prosperity.
It will be a great day when Teixera loses his subscribers because even today’s AI can write columns based on “Democrats lose because they don’t follow my advice”. And AI can do it cheaper.
AI doesn't have the nuances of language that a well-educated human does. AI can provide a beginning template, but for sophistated analyses on topics I'm fairly expert in my writing is far superior to any AI product.
Ruy, how can we break through to the top echelons of the DNC and Congressional Democrats on the issues you have raised such like growth and transgenderism? What groups can we support to broaden the tent? And what do you think of advocacy groups like Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (https://www.di-ag.org/) and other educational outreach groups? (Lifelong Democrat here, from a long line of Democrats).
Democrats, the party, has abandoned the American working class and replaced it with the Global elite thuggery that tells them to flood the country with illegal aliens, back Climate Change onerous laws that hurt the middle class, push men to compete AND WIN in woman's sports .. all sorts of things, just not the ones that help America.
Public schools are failing, especially for working class and low-income kids. A high percentage of these kids leave school without even basic reading and math skills. These schools have become progressive madrasas, where students are taught only about victimhood and oppression.
Even if growth policies did produce “good jobs” in new technology sectors, it won’t be the working class graduates of public schools with limited basic skills filling all the new jobs. That is a pipe dream.
There were some interesting special elections related to this in the last 2 months. In GA, Democrats won 22 flips at the county commissioner level. These were almost all Big Data related, with Democrats promising to keep energy/utility costs lower and Rs sitting on their thumbs on the issue. For now, Democrats will promise to cap energy rates, but that's impossible without either taxing the companies that come in for the difference or taxing the people for the difference. There is a third alternative that the Democrats will not use, which the Rs, once they recovered from the shock and figured out their plan, will almost certainly use and that's regulatory, namely they won't let new data centers be built without the company itself providing the power and the water. https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2033546645875364141?s=20
Already, this is the direction that Big Data is moving, effectively negating Democrat promises. But they got in some quick jabs.
I should mention, though, that those commissioner victories were quickly offset by higher level Rs wins (4/4) in FL and VA including a state legislative flip in a deep blue district in VA. Going back to Jan., that puts Rs at something like 8/11 specials, but most people remember the VA gov race (not a special election). Still, a closer look doesn't lend all that much encouragement to Ds.
Mark my words, data centers/AI/power will be one of the two most important issues in November, and this can only occur in an era of economic growth and drill, baby, drill.
Absolutely, but this goes back to the fact that the Democrats are now opposed to ANYTHING that benefits Americans, especially if Trump is in office. Thus, you can do what you can with the regulatory agencies, but any actual legislation will get bottled up in the now irrelevant Senate.
As alway spot on Ruy. Sadly it would appear your audience is mostly either disaffected Dems lacking the ability to change Party policy, or moderate Reps.
Dems now often seem to exist mainly a cartoon version of their 90s Party. Yesterday Texans were treated to a 2022 video of our young Dem wunderkid Talarico, still masked, lecturing his Lone Star brothers and sisters to put down the steak knifes and walk away from their beloved BBQ, that is simultaneously, needlessly killing the planet and animals.
This in a state where most dinner parties not only have a meat entree, but a couple of meat heavy, side dishes. Next week,I fully expect a grainy video to drop of the Dem Great White Hope proposing the banning of both pick up trucks and puppies.
For those keeping score at home, that means the the new Dem Lone Star Savior is pro unrestricted abortion, pro child sex changes and pro irredeemably racist White Texans perpetually repenting for their omnipresent racism, while being anti oil production and anti meat consumption, in Texas.
At least Talarico's "moderate" insanity is mostly amusing. In Virginia, a handful of years after covered up school rapes by a trans student, helped hand Reps the Governor's race, the school sexual assault part of history, is repeating itself. The same school district that covered up the rapes, was hiding a dozen teen girls groped between the legs during the school day, by a 19 year old undocumented man enrolled as an 11th grade student.
A notice to parents went out 2 weeks after the assaults, only after an actual arrest could no longer be hidden from the public, because the perpetrator is an adult. Under VA law this man will not be handed to ICE for deportation when released on bond, but will be allowed to return to school.
Parents are, understandably, hysterical. Spangberger is silent, while still on the hot seat after another migrant with violent priors, recently brutally murdered a 41 year VA Mother at a bus stop. Would a Dem please explain both the morality and political expediency of protecting an adult man that publicly gropes a dozen teen girls, as they walk the halls, during the middle of a school day?
Forget "growth" and the lack of logic that touts "abundance" while cheering open borders during a housing shortage and still clings to fantasy Climate policy, based on debunked science. Dems can't get past defending sexual predators of any nationality or any gender identity, while lecturing Americans their lifestyles are too oil and meat centric. Good Luck with that.
The environmentalist commitments of the Democratic Party can be divided into "protectionist" and "transformative" elements. The protectionist elements seek to guard the natural environment and preserve 20th century community profiles; the transformative elements seek to replace fossil fuels with clean energy. Each of these has positive elements that can be effective growth platforms and negative elements that are anti-growth.
Democrats should, I think, retain their basic commitment to environmentalism (not just as an electoral strategy -- I think the reality of climate change is undeniable) but approach it from a growth perspective. The huge leaps in renewable energy efficiency and storage capacity are industrial-strength growth areas, and the transformation from fossil fuels to renewables involve new jobs, new plants, vastly increased productivity, as well as environmental preservation. There is no need to focus on the need to end fossil fuel production, which is a negative platform. Instead, Democrats need to commit to an all-of-the-above platform, without government subsidy for any, because the clean energy industry already has the wherewithal to outcompete fossil fuels and will only become stronger through its rapid advances. Every Latino man may want a big-ass truck, but the technological improvements in trucks are disproportionately going to be in the EV sector -- and good growth can involve building out charging stations and simply marketing EV trucks based on superior performance and cost-effectiveness as demand grows.
The same type of growth approach applies to community profiles. Postwar suburban ideals delivered growth and comfort, even luxury, for the American middle class, but in the long term it's a dysfunctional model because of the impact of sprawl on the environment and the impossibility of providing adequate numbers of housing units in a one-family home community. It's easy to present YIMBY policies as pro-growth -- they are, on the face of it -- but Democrats should move their emphasis from providing affordable homes for people who need them to providing workplace housing that will strengthen the economic benefits for everyone in the community.
It's different with AI. The Democratic demographic was disproportionately the source of the technological innovation that led to AI, but Democrats have also become the chief source of AI caution, and that caution is well-deserved. I think AI regulation is not only a critical need in this transition period but electorally popular, as Mr. Teixeira grants. I do think Democrats need to frame this as a transitional policy platform, stressing both the promise of AI and the importance of discovering and compensating for its various severely negative impacts. We took this approach with nuclear energy and it was well warranted (though the degree of caution has now probably outlived it's usefulness: all-of-the-above should include well regulated nuclear).
I only wish you could make Abigail Spanberger read this. The press worked hard to portray her as a moderate who would look out for all Virginians, but so far, she's making Chris Murphy look like an honest broker and he's anything but.
I am old, and have a memory of things being kind of not sucking for middle income folks until the Reagan voodoo tax cuts and deregulation for the rich and corporations, and getting progressively worse with those of Bush 2, and now,Trump. Why wouldn't Dems demanding moving toward a restoration of pre-Reagan tax structure be, instead of " taxing the rich" both smart politics and good policy?
Regarding " Abundance" while you are generally supportive , and make good points, I think you sell Kline and Thompson short on housing. I read the book a few months ago, and found it very strong on housing, including in non-urban housing. I think they are especially good in terms of fighting restrictive zoning in neighborhoods, not just toward urban housing. I first got interested in it reading Kline's at- that- time-contraband rants against neighborhood NIMBYism. I agree that Abundance , reasonably overseen, would , and should be a way restoring a pro-growth Dem. agenda.
Carter meant well, but he was a bumbler. I remember 10% inflation, 10% unemployment and 20% prime lending rates in 1980 and Reagan asked, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" He won by a landslide. Four years later, he asked the same question and went on to win in the largest landslide second only to George Washington. There was a reason for that and his tax cuts fueled much of it for those of us trying to raise a family. Democrats have never forgiven him for that.
"These voters, quite simply, want to be richer and have more stuff."
I'm not so sure that this is more important than extending status to working class jobs we have written off as undeserving. The sequestering of status by the words and numbers folks, making the DOGE boys into little gods while the people who make the country work get nada, may not be an easy thing to reverse but the subject must be addressed.
You see the problems. Are you over being a Democrat?
Democrats once understood the importance of economic growth.
The 1960"s?
Leftists only care about obstructing Trump, open borders, and tranny grooming our kids. They don’t care about the economics of affordability, especially since all they’re focused on is raising taxes in California, Washington, New York, Virginia, Colorado, and Illinois. Somehow, they think, taxes will create prosperity.
It will be a great day when Teixera loses his subscribers because even today’s AI can write columns based on “Democrats lose because they don’t follow my advice”. And AI can do it cheaper.
AI doesn't have the nuances of language that a well-educated human does. AI can provide a beginning template, but for sophistated analyses on topics I'm fairly expert in my writing is far superior to any AI product.
On the other hand, AI would remember Build Back Better and the Green New Deal, which Teixera has forgotten.
Ruy, how can we break through to the top echelons of the DNC and Congressional Democrats on the issues you have raised such like growth and transgenderism? What groups can we support to broaden the tent? And what do you think of advocacy groups like Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (https://www.di-ag.org/) and other educational outreach groups? (Lifelong Democrat here, from a long line of Democrats).
Democrats, the party, has abandoned the American working class and replaced it with the Global elite thuggery that tells them to flood the country with illegal aliens, back Climate Change onerous laws that hurt the middle class, push men to compete AND WIN in woman's sports .. all sorts of things, just not the ones that help America.
AI is probably going to affect female-centric jobs first, and that will suck up all the oxygen in the room.
Expect further calls for student loan debt forgiveness, UBI etc. as more women eschew marrying men and marry the government instead.
Working class men will be viewed as milk-cows, not constituents to be made happy.
Public schools are failing, especially for working class and low-income kids. A high percentage of these kids leave school without even basic reading and math skills. These schools have become progressive madrasas, where students are taught only about victimhood and oppression.
Even if growth policies did produce “good jobs” in new technology sectors, it won’t be the working class graduates of public schools with limited basic skills filling all the new jobs. That is a pipe dream.
There were some interesting special elections related to this in the last 2 months. In GA, Democrats won 22 flips at the county commissioner level. These were almost all Big Data related, with Democrats promising to keep energy/utility costs lower and Rs sitting on their thumbs on the issue. For now, Democrats will promise to cap energy rates, but that's impossible without either taxing the companies that come in for the difference or taxing the people for the difference. There is a third alternative that the Democrats will not use, which the Rs, once they recovered from the shock and figured out their plan, will almost certainly use and that's regulatory, namely they won't let new data centers be built without the company itself providing the power and the water. https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2033546645875364141?s=20
Already, this is the direction that Big Data is moving, effectively negating Democrat promises. But they got in some quick jabs.
I should mention, though, that those commissioner victories were quickly offset by higher level Rs wins (4/4) in FL and VA including a state legislative flip in a deep blue district in VA. Going back to Jan., that puts Rs at something like 8/11 specials, but most people remember the VA gov race (not a special election). Still, a closer look doesn't lend all that much encouragement to Ds.
Mark my words, data centers/AI/power will be one of the two most important issues in November, and this can only occur in an era of economic growth and drill, baby, drill.
If the R’s are smart they will work to streamline and simplify permitting for small scale nuclear to power data centers.
Absolutely, but this goes back to the fact that the Democrats are now opposed to ANYTHING that benefits Americans, especially if Trump is in office. Thus, you can do what you can with the regulatory agencies, but any actual legislation will get bottled up in the now irrelevant Senate.
As alway spot on Ruy. Sadly it would appear your audience is mostly either disaffected Dems lacking the ability to change Party policy, or moderate Reps.
Dems now often seem to exist mainly a cartoon version of their 90s Party. Yesterday Texans were treated to a 2022 video of our young Dem wunderkid Talarico, still masked, lecturing his Lone Star brothers and sisters to put down the steak knifes and walk away from their beloved BBQ, that is simultaneously, needlessly killing the planet and animals.
This in a state where most dinner parties not only have a meat entree, but a couple of meat heavy, side dishes. Next week,I fully expect a grainy video to drop of the Dem Great White Hope proposing the banning of both pick up trucks and puppies.
For those keeping score at home, that means the the new Dem Lone Star Savior is pro unrestricted abortion, pro child sex changes and pro irredeemably racist White Texans perpetually repenting for their omnipresent racism, while being anti oil production and anti meat consumption, in Texas.
At least Talarico's "moderate" insanity is mostly amusing. In Virginia, a handful of years after covered up school rapes by a trans student, helped hand Reps the Governor's race, the school sexual assault part of history, is repeating itself. The same school district that covered up the rapes, was hiding a dozen teen girls groped between the legs during the school day, by a 19 year old undocumented man enrolled as an 11th grade student.
A notice to parents went out 2 weeks after the assaults, only after an actual arrest could no longer be hidden from the public, because the perpetrator is an adult. Under VA law this man will not be handed to ICE for deportation when released on bond, but will be allowed to return to school.
Parents are, understandably, hysterical. Spangberger is silent, while still on the hot seat after another migrant with violent priors, recently brutally murdered a 41 year VA Mother at a bus stop. Would a Dem please explain both the morality and political expediency of protecting an adult man that publicly gropes a dozen teen girls, as they walk the halls, during the middle of a school day?
Forget "growth" and the lack of logic that touts "abundance" while cheering open borders during a housing shortage and still clings to fantasy Climate policy, based on debunked science. Dems can't get past defending sexual predators of any nationality or any gender identity, while lecturing Americans their lifestyles are too oil and meat centric. Good Luck with that.
Democrats Don’t Have a Growth Program
They’re not even interested.
And this Surprises you?
Both Rudy, and I suspect a majority of Democrats, agree on many of these points.
Their problem is, in spite of being the majority in their party, the more radical and smaller extreme left have hijacked the D vote.
Before they can even start to think about getting disillusioned Republicans to consider their arguments, they need to regain control.
The continued discussion of these issues that most already agree on, is pointless.
The environmentalist commitments of the Democratic Party can be divided into "protectionist" and "transformative" elements. The protectionist elements seek to guard the natural environment and preserve 20th century community profiles; the transformative elements seek to replace fossil fuels with clean energy. Each of these has positive elements that can be effective growth platforms and negative elements that are anti-growth.
Democrats should, I think, retain their basic commitment to environmentalism (not just as an electoral strategy -- I think the reality of climate change is undeniable) but approach it from a growth perspective. The huge leaps in renewable energy efficiency and storage capacity are industrial-strength growth areas, and the transformation from fossil fuels to renewables involve new jobs, new plants, vastly increased productivity, as well as environmental preservation. There is no need to focus on the need to end fossil fuel production, which is a negative platform. Instead, Democrats need to commit to an all-of-the-above platform, without government subsidy for any, because the clean energy industry already has the wherewithal to outcompete fossil fuels and will only become stronger through its rapid advances. Every Latino man may want a big-ass truck, but the technological improvements in trucks are disproportionately going to be in the EV sector -- and good growth can involve building out charging stations and simply marketing EV trucks based on superior performance and cost-effectiveness as demand grows.
The same type of growth approach applies to community profiles. Postwar suburban ideals delivered growth and comfort, even luxury, for the American middle class, but in the long term it's a dysfunctional model because of the impact of sprawl on the environment and the impossibility of providing adequate numbers of housing units in a one-family home community. It's easy to present YIMBY policies as pro-growth -- they are, on the face of it -- but Democrats should move their emphasis from providing affordable homes for people who need them to providing workplace housing that will strengthen the economic benefits for everyone in the community.
It's different with AI. The Democratic demographic was disproportionately the source of the technological innovation that led to AI, but Democrats have also become the chief source of AI caution, and that caution is well-deserved. I think AI regulation is not only a critical need in this transition period but electorally popular, as Mr. Teixeira grants. I do think Democrats need to frame this as a transitional policy platform, stressing both the promise of AI and the importance of discovering and compensating for its various severely negative impacts. We took this approach with nuclear energy and it was well warranted (though the degree of caution has now probably outlived it's usefulness: all-of-the-above should include well regulated nuclear).
Once again Ruy, you nailed it.
I only wish you could make Abigail Spanberger read this. The press worked hard to portray her as a moderate who would look out for all Virginians, but so far, she's making Chris Murphy look like an honest broker and he's anything but.
Anyone who took the time to research her past efforts would not have bought her bs.
Own it Virginia.
I am old, and have a memory of things being kind of not sucking for middle income folks until the Reagan voodoo tax cuts and deregulation for the rich and corporations, and getting progressively worse with those of Bush 2, and now,Trump. Why wouldn't Dems demanding moving toward a restoration of pre-Reagan tax structure be, instead of " taxing the rich" both smart politics and good policy?
Regarding " Abundance" while you are generally supportive , and make good points, I think you sell Kline and Thompson short on housing. I read the book a few months ago, and found it very strong on housing, including in non-urban housing. I think they are especially good in terms of fighting restrictive zoning in neighborhoods, not just toward urban housing. I first got interested in it reading Kline's at- that- time-contraband rants against neighborhood NIMBYism. I agree that Abundance , reasonably overseen, would , and should be a way restoring a pro-growth Dem. agenda.
Carter meant well, but he was a bumbler. I remember 10% inflation, 10% unemployment and 20% prime lending rates in 1980 and Reagan asked, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" He won by a landslide. Four years later, he asked the same question and went on to win in the largest landslide second only to George Washington. There was a reason for that and his tax cuts fueled much of it for those of us trying to raise a family. Democrats have never forgiven him for that.