Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present [...]
Courtesy of Conor Friedersdorf
Liberals: X is an even bigger problem now. The solution Y3 is an urgent national priority. Conservatives: The Founders would hate Y3. It’s European. In other words, socialist. Why doesn’t anyone care about how many people Mao killed? Voters: Yeah, why doesn’t anyone care about how many people Mao killed? And Y3 is a flawed [...]
The electoral system is far and away the biggest cause of the nightmare that is politics in the United States, and the biggest impediment to any improvement. Single Member District Plurality Voting virtually ensures that the fear-mongering, emotional appeals, upapologetic tribalism, and supernatural nonsense will never change, nor will the virtual enmeshment of monied interests [...]
Essentially I believe that our political concerns should involve maintaining radical non-normative civil liberties and discursive space, while providing for the amelioration of human suffering through the use of government action. I don’t think that human beings are basically good, nor do I believe that scientism, cramped materialism and an increased technocracy will lead us [...]
