"In contrast, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign more explicitly appeals to the professional class, both in form and content....yet her rise is still likely to strain a Democratic machine heavily reliant on billionaire funders."
-
-
The most important insight I got out of this was how Warren and Sanders each solve one half of the problem but make the other half intractable. In predictive terms the paradox results in: Sanders could win the election, but probably not the nomination. Warren other way around
Show this thread -
I think the tldr is: the laboring class is politically still potent but economically a deadweight loss and everybody (including they themselves) knows it and has acknowledged it. The professional class still thinks it has a shot at resurrection.
Show this thread -
So on the narrow question of winning POTUS, the right candidate would be a mix of Obama and Trump: promise hope to the elites and the chance to bloody a few noses to the laboring class. The paradox being they want to bloody the noses of the class looking for hope.
Show this thread -
One solution: run for POTUS on campaign promise of a Purge, but where elites get free guns, and if they survive, they get UBI and climate action. The masses get to mount the heads of any elites they take down on spikes. 0.1% capital winners will be parked in orbit during Purge
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

