I agree with a lot of what he's saying, but its kind of hilarious that he thought the PT Barnum of real estate with a string of bankruptcies behind him and a litany of unpaid debts to small businesses would be the one to turn things around, rather than emblematic of exactly the stagnation he's complaining about.
I agree with a lot of what he's saying, but its kind of hilarious that he thought the PT Barnum of real estate with a string of bankruptcies behind him and a litany of unpaid debts to small businesses would be the one to turn things around, rather than emblematic of exactly the stagnation he's complaining about.
In reference to Bari's question, I suppose I find myself on the radical revolutionary side according to her definitions. Fortunately, the root cause of our woes is unbelievably easy to pinpoint: it's corruption. We have legalized corruption in this country, our "leaders" can't even drive within those rather broad lanes, and we wonder why there is stagnation...why we can't agree on whether it's over-regulation or not enough regulation that's the problem. Large businesses are running the country for their own benefit. Regulations to curtail activities which impinge on individuals' natural rights are absent, while regulations to box out smaller competition (and innovation) are rampant.
Look at green energy. Green energy is the future. It is the future because it is what the market wants. Yet our government is still panting at the end of big oil's leash. We're subsidizing a dying industry that keeps our energy prices chained to areas of the world that don't like us very much. There is nothing about the oil industry, except jobs which could be created in other industries, that is good for this country in any way. The reason we continue to do this is because politicians are *paid* to maintain the status quo. If the government had gotten behind innovation in green energy 10 years ago instead of trying to thwart it, we would be absolutely crushing the market rather than floundering to keep up with the Chinese. Corruption has eroded our ability to look for what's next and capitalize on it.
Even if you don't think corruption is the whole problem, it is the problem that must be dealt with before any other problems can be solved.
The "wokeness" the commenters here think is the end of the world is just a symptom. We got rid of overtly racist laws. We have had political correctness which, whether people like it or not, has reckoned with a lot of things that needed to be reckoned with. Now we have wokeness which is trying to get at areas of lingering inequality and racism but is veering into censorship and nonsense far too often. The problem isn't people being sensitive to microagressions, its that they feel powerless and hopeless because of the complete non-responsiveness of our government to citizens input, total technological ignorance by the government, the death of the American dream, etc. Give people opportunity, give them a society that is actually going somewhere, and the wokeness movement will fade - not because you argued them into submission on teh internets but because lingering inequality will go away and everyone's standard of living will be raised. Everyone wins (except legacy industries that the government is artificially propping up with your tax dollars and debt.)
People want control over their lives and if they are denied control in one area they will overcompensate in another. Return this country to the hands of the people, return it to a country which values innovation and technology and all of the other problems will begin to work themselves out.
I agree with a lot of what he's saying, but its kind of hilarious that he thought the PT Barnum of real estate with a string of bankruptcies behind him and a litany of unpaid debts to small businesses would be the one to turn things around, rather than emblematic of exactly the stagnation he's complaining about.
In reference to Bari's question, I suppose I find myself on the radical revolutionary side according to her definitions. Fortunately, the root cause of our woes is unbelievably easy to pinpoint: it's corruption. We have legalized corruption in this country, our "leaders" can't even drive within those rather broad lanes, and we wonder why there is stagnation...why we can't agree on whether it's over-regulation or not enough regulation that's the problem. Large businesses are running the country for their own benefit. Regulations to curtail activities which impinge on individuals' natural rights are absent, while regulations to box out smaller competition (and innovation) are rampant.
Look at green energy. Green energy is the future. It is the future because it is what the market wants. Yet our government is still panting at the end of big oil's leash. We're subsidizing a dying industry that keeps our energy prices chained to areas of the world that don't like us very much. There is nothing about the oil industry, except jobs which could be created in other industries, that is good for this country in any way. The reason we continue to do this is because politicians are *paid* to maintain the status quo. If the government had gotten behind innovation in green energy 10 years ago instead of trying to thwart it, we would be absolutely crushing the market rather than floundering to keep up with the Chinese. Corruption has eroded our ability to look for what's next and capitalize on it.
Even if you don't think corruption is the whole problem, it is the problem that must be dealt with before any other problems can be solved.
The "wokeness" the commenters here think is the end of the world is just a symptom. We got rid of overtly racist laws. We have had political correctness which, whether people like it or not, has reckoned with a lot of things that needed to be reckoned with. Now we have wokeness which is trying to get at areas of lingering inequality and racism but is veering into censorship and nonsense far too often. The problem isn't people being sensitive to microagressions, its that they feel powerless and hopeless because of the complete non-responsiveness of our government to citizens input, total technological ignorance by the government, the death of the American dream, etc. Give people opportunity, give them a society that is actually going somewhere, and the wokeness movement will fade - not because you argued them into submission on teh internets but because lingering inequality will go away and everyone's standard of living will be raised. Everyone wins (except legacy industries that the government is artificially propping up with your tax dollars and debt.)
People want control over their lives and if they are denied control in one area they will overcompensate in another. Return this country to the hands of the people, return it to a country which values innovation and technology and all of the other problems will begin to work themselves out.