We used to have a Conservative Party that wasn’t in thrall to one man. Trump has William F. Buckley spinning.
Instead of moaning that only 10% of scientists contribute to Republicans, perhaps it would be more useful to consider why really smart people don’t think contributing to Republicans benefits them. And after the recent DOGE jihad, that should be fairly obvious.
A war on wokeness that stayed within the confines of existing law and could gain lasting support from academics who are fed up with the far left was possible
I was very hopeful about this. As it stands those who oppose any attempts at change get to wrap themselves in the sympathetic garb of The Resistance and academic institutions are more likely to stay woke. Corporates seem like they are in the clear as they were already itching to dump wokeness, but academy was going to be a harder fight requiring more moderate converts on the inside
Now that both sides have had a turn doing some dumb things, hopefully we can end up with the logical compromise, where you are not penalized either for being Asian or for voting Democratic.
These people always wanted to seize the apparatus of wokeness to push Jesus, "pro-family" social conservatism etc. The are just woke for other things. Instead of thinking patriarchy and capitalism are brainwashing people against their interests and need a perceptive elect to set them straight, they think feminism, hippies and Marxists are brainwashing people against their interests and need an enlightened elect (Preachers, priests, trad con gurus) to set them straight. False Consciousness and thinking your tribe should get the steering wheel to correct re-educate people is now the coin of the realm in conservatism too. Godforbid anyone actual reckon that maybe self-interests are constrained by a choice environment and people are actually pretty smart about reckoning their tradeoff structures.
This has been the problem with Trump 2.0 since day 2. Start with reasonable premises and goals…like ending DEI and “wokeness” in institutions, or stopping illegal immigration…..but which then morphs with insane stupidity to ideological purity tests and exercises in orange ass kissing, and detaining students for writing one op-ed. If you thought it was retarded when the woke left did it, it is absolutely no different and no better when the maga right does it.
Then all the idiocy besides with global tariffs, “deporting” to third country prisons, and now accepting open bribe/trojan horse jets from Qatar, with little push back from the sycophants.
It seems low human capital brings you the stupid, and also those without principles.
Turns out Trump is the "woke right" all along (lol).
Banania officially reaches peak human capital status
Populists in shambles.
We used to have a Conservative Party that wasn’t in thrall to one man. Trump has William F. Buckley spinning.
Instead of moaning that only 10% of scientists contribute to Republicans, perhaps it would be more useful to consider why really smart people don’t think contributing to Republicans benefits them. And after the recent DOGE jihad, that should be fairly obvious.
A war on wokeness that stayed within the confines of existing law and could gain lasting support from academics who are fed up with the far left was possible
I was very hopeful about this. As it stands those who oppose any attempts at change get to wrap themselves in the sympathetic garb of The Resistance and academic institutions are more likely to stay woke. Corporates seem like they are in the clear as they were already itching to dump wokeness, but academy was going to be a harder fight requiring more moderate converts on the inside
Now that both sides have had a turn doing some dumb things, hopefully we can end up with the logical compromise, where you are not penalized either for being Asian or for voting Democratic.
These people always wanted to seize the apparatus of wokeness to push Jesus, "pro-family" social conservatism etc. The are just woke for other things. Instead of thinking patriarchy and capitalism are brainwashing people against their interests and need a perceptive elect to set them straight, they think feminism, hippies and Marxists are brainwashing people against their interests and need an enlightened elect (Preachers, priests, trad con gurus) to set them straight. False Consciousness and thinking your tribe should get the steering wheel to correct re-educate people is now the coin of the realm in conservatism too. Godforbid anyone actual reckon that maybe self-interests are constrained by a choice environment and people are actually pretty smart about reckoning their tradeoff structures.
This has been the problem with Trump 2.0 since day 2. Start with reasonable premises and goals…like ending DEI and “wokeness” in institutions, or stopping illegal immigration…..but which then morphs with insane stupidity to ideological purity tests and exercises in orange ass kissing, and detaining students for writing one op-ed. If you thought it was retarded when the woke left did it, it is absolutely no different and no better when the maga right does it.
Then all the idiocy besides with global tariffs, “deporting” to third country prisons, and now accepting open bribe/trojan horse jets from Qatar, with little push back from the sycophants.
It seems low human capital brings you the stupid, and also those without principles.
We can hope that bipolar excesses settle down and ultimately lead to sensible outcomes. But there's no guarantee.