When told such a single-payer model would eliminate private insurance plans, that overall support dropped to 52% — still well ahead of the 37% favorability seen in the 2020 survey.
That’s weird to me. Are people really that impressed with their private insurance plans? Because I’ve had several private plans in my life and none of them were better than Medicare, for the price.
We need to go to permanent standard time. Just fall back on November 1st and never change the clocks again.
Trump brushed aside the likelihood of Democrats winning, telling Time magazine that, so long as he campaigns with candidates, Republicans could perform well.
Trump might not trust the polls but I bet he trusts polymarket, and it’s currently showing 63% chance of Democrats taking the Senate and 93% of Dems taking the House.
Jose Lev Alvarez is an American–Israeli scholar specializing in international security policy. A multilingual veteran of the IDF special forces and the U.S. Army
Uh huh
I was looking at the new Slate truck and that at least looks somewhat promising
Yeah, the Slate is interesting. The fact that it doesn’t have a massive infotainment screen is itself enough to keep me intrigued. I’m not an early adopter, though. I’m going to see how their first model run goes, at least.
Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, we have finally ended the illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a statement touting vehicle affordability, vehicle safety and investment in American auto workers.
Damn straight! If my car or truck ain’t big, loud, inefficient, polluting and running exclusively on completely nonrenewable, expensive to refine, 100 million year old fossil goo, I ain’t interested! Who cares if only less than 25% of the energy contained in a tank of gas is actually used to move my car, while the other 75%+ is totally wasted as heat. Efficiency is for nerds.
Seriously, though, I really don’t want an expensive EV. I want an affordable EV. We need more of those.
I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t entirely agree. Trump did win the presidential nomination of one of only two established major political parties. Many Republican politicians who had been part of the US political establishment for decades are now among Trump’s coalition. Trump also has the support of some established media organizations, like Fox News. I would also argue that the business establishment is largely the same as it was before Trump came into office.
Yes, most Americans are very upset with the establishment. They just can’t agree on who the establishment is.
Obviously Trump is currently the establishment since he’s the one in power right now, but the irony is a lot of the people who voted for him did so because they were angry with the establishment that preceded him. So, many Americans are angry at an establishment that was meant to take on a past establishment that many other Americans had been angry with.
It’s been 260 days. Chill.
But instead, we are simply very far behind on infrastructure and building.
We are.
We should be building
We should.
…dense housing, clean energy, transmission lines, etc…
I agree, but who’s going to initiate all of this development? I suppose the idea is that without the obstacle of unnecessary regulations, private capital will flood into these developments, but I don’t buy that regulation is what has been primarily holding private capital back. Investors will cut through any and all red tape if the potential for profit is high enough. Where’s the profit potential in building out electricity transmission infrastructure, for instance? Aren’t most infrastructure projects publicly directed and funded, anyway?
I just think people like Klein place far too much faith in the invisible hand of the free market.
to make up for decades of intentionally slowing down development, mainly intended to protect homes and communities that were already built.
Not to protect communities, to protect individual wealth. The vast majority of American households have the vast majority of their wealth in their home. It is by far their most valuable asset. For many Americans, it’s their retirement plan. For many others, it’s the only inheritance they have to pass on to their children. That’s why they vote for restrictive zoning laws, they’re trying to protect what relatively little wealth they’ve been able to accumulate in their life.
I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself
How the hell is that supposed to work? Like, is his financial success supposed to inspire us or fill us with national pride? What the hell do I care if he’s made hundreds of billions of dollars on his investments (assuming that’s even true)? Fuck his investments. Fuck him.
That’s ok, we just need to keep growing the pie. Forever. If we do that, eventually even the poorest will be living like the average millionaire today. At least I think that’s the theory those ‘Abundance’ people, like Ezra Klein, are pushing: just keep growing until we’ve converted so much of the Earth’s resources into profits for capital that there’s just so much god damned wealth that inequality no longer matters? I guess.
I will vote for the people who represent me, and they are the people who believe that every human being deserves to have their material needs met.
Liberals only care about the rights of rich people. The right to their life, their liberty and all the property they can hoard. The rest of us have the right to be poor, the right to be hungry, the right to be sick, the right to be ignorant, the right to be homeless, the right to be destitute, the right to be exploited, the right to be misinformed, the right to be left behind, the right to suffer.
At the same time a liberal democracy can vote that a minority ethnic group should all become slaves.
That’s not what Hayek was talking about when he referenced a “democratic government lacking liberalism.” He was talking about Chile after the election of Salvador Allende, a socialist. Allende “sought to nationalize major industries, expand education, and improve the living standards of the working class.” No mention of mass enslavement. Although his replacement, Augusto Pinochet, who was supported by Hayek and the US, tortured and/or murdered tens of thousands.
That’s true. Does that mean you agree with Hayek?
Ask a liberal which is worse, fascism or socialism and you might be surprised how many would say socialism is worse, if they were being honest. Not that they like fascism. Not at all, they hate it. They just hate socialism more. To them, fascism is the lesser of the two evils. And I’m not just making this up, a prominent liberal economist of the 20th century said it explicitly:
As you will understand, it is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
I’m a determinist so, yeah, I agree, I don’t think you can change the future. But I don’t think it does any good to be depressed about it. We don’t know what the future’s going to be, but I don’t think it’s guaranteed to be a dystopian nightmare. I think there’s a good chance the future could be hard, but hard times can bring about a lot of important changes.