I think it’s pretty clear none of this actually matters politically. Results are a very far second to effective messaging. I might go as far as saying results (barring an actual economic meltdown) are irrelevant since voters don’t mind being lied to.
If we’re debating which policy will deliver the best results to win back the working class then we’ve already lost.
bashar_al_assad on
> A functional repeal of the IRA would be a crushing defeat for Biden’s economic experiment. If, however, core portions of the law survive, one of post-neoliberalism’s central conceits will be validated: that policy should be designed to be politically durable, even if it means that economists consider it “inefficient.”
Are there people with the view that policies shouldn’t be designed to be politically durable? What would be the point of doing anything lol, you’re basically signing up for a cycle of the other party winning and doing 4 to 8 years of “bad things” (however you define them), followed by you winning and spending 4 to 8 years going “well at least we’re not doing *more* bad things”, followed by the other party winning and doing an additional 4 to 8 years of bad things.
propanezizek on
Childhood is when you hate Biden for being neoliberal.
Adulthood is when you hate Biden for not being neoliberal.
stormtrooper1701 on
Not as long as everything you hate is Neoliberal, and the more you hate it, the Neoliberalier it is.
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I think it’s pretty clear none of this actually matters politically. Results are a very far second to effective messaging. I might go as far as saying results (barring an actual economic meltdown) are irrelevant since voters don’t mind being lied to.
If we’re debating which policy will deliver the best results to win back the working class then we’ve already lost.
> A functional repeal of the IRA would be a crushing defeat for Biden’s economic experiment. If, however, core portions of the law survive, one of post-neoliberalism’s central conceits will be validated: that policy should be designed to be politically durable, even if it means that economists consider it “inefficient.”
Are there people with the view that policies shouldn’t be designed to be politically durable? What would be the point of doing anything lol, you’re basically signing up for a cycle of the other party winning and doing 4 to 8 years of “bad things” (however you define them), followed by you winning and spending 4 to 8 years going “well at least we’re not doing *more* bad things”, followed by the other party winning and doing an additional 4 to 8 years of bad things.
Childhood is when you hate Biden for being neoliberal.
Adulthood is when you hate Biden for not being neoliberal.
Not as long as everything you hate is Neoliberal, and the more you hate it, the Neoliberalier it is.