I came to look at a former co-worker Jim as an example of a misguided contemporary liberal person. Similar thinking people may now call themselves "progressive". One thing I found in common in discussions with other liberal/progressive folks is that they tend to obfuscate the subject to win an argument rather than find common ground. It could be that about 20% of the voters fit this category. The problem is that Jim also has a high competitive nature, perhaps 8 out of 10 on that scale. That means he cannot hardly stand to be wrong. I estimate Jim is about a 6 on the Narcissist scale. President Obama is about a 9.
This is all good data for my Personality and Public Policy Profile (PPPP) project that I have been working at home for some years. The idea is to be able to quickly understand why a person votes the way they do. The problem is that many of my progressive friends do not seem to want to take such a test, at least not publicly. It may surprise some to realized they are not progressive in any good way. Instead they are really more an authoritarian!
If you base your understanding on questionable sources it is very easy to get the wrong idea about [fill in the blank].
Please do not engage in pointless conflict…
Another example of why we don’t trust Government:
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1871714978882830451
While we like the idea of a libertarian society, consider the view of folks such as Brian Doherty, who points out that one "has to believe" that "the instincts and abilities for liberty . . . are innate," that we possess "an ability to fend for ourselves in the Randian sense and to form spontaneous orders of fellowship and cooperation in the Hayekian sense." But this view of the relationship between the individual and society is profoundly and demonstrably false, especially when applied to the family.
Sometimes one has to make a difficult choice: Commies or Nazis?
Not either if we can...
Stalin was used to defeat Hitler.
Let's not support ANY form of totalitarian government, foreign or domestic.
Thank the Heavens that Obama/Biden have been partly taken out of power.
- Work and pray this never happens again.
Neo-Brandeisianism.
Hipster Brandeis is the term coined by Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for the Neo-Brandeisian (named after former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis) approach to antitrust enforcement. Hipster Neo-Brandeisianists, like Brandeis himself, favor an aggressive use of antitrust to punish businesses for the crime of growing too big by efficiently satisfying consumers.
The 2024 U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is a Neo-Brandeisianist.
