This was a brutal listen, like I genuinely question if Zephyr even bothered to read the book. The Berniecrat resistance to Abundance is crazy to me, part of me thinks it’s viewed as a threat to their wings push for power within the party since they gain support if the moderates can’t provide a positive alternative to the progressives. But at the same time, there really seems to be an inability to even comprehend the outline Ezra is providing.
Like let’s be real, it wouldn’t take much effort for them to co-opt Abundance into a progressive message, but they’re not even bothering to try. The fact that easier to build green energy in *Texas* than California just does not compute, if it doesn’t fit into the “oligarchy is the one and only problem”, they won’t even acknowledge that an issue is there. I can’t understand how they don’t see that the problems in blue states that Ezra points out are problems for them achieving their goals as well.
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In this Zepher says that she thinks the North Star of the Democratic party should be anti-monopoly politics. Maybe I need to read some books on this, but I feel like anti-monopolists are really overestimating how much their policy framework can accomplish.
Okbuddyliberals on
The left, once again, is trash, and is ideologically deeply married to opposition to good governance
Vulcanic_1984 on
It’s very similar to One Billion Americans. The public response just literally could not comprehend that doing more was possible.
I lived in probably the single most walkable neighborhood in a red state (also on national register of historic places) and a new restaurant is opening. Beautiful building, no parking (brilliant idea to lease spots from a nearby law firm for valet, as their lots are empty at night). The sheer vitriol of residents over the lack of parking was insane. I couldn’t comprehend it as I assumed those who chose to live here wanted a car light lifestyle. But the malthusian degrowth hoa petty tyrant assumptions run very very deep in the us on the left as well as the right.
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Saying CA HSR has had so many problems because it wasn’t a big enough project is insane to me.
Its the biggest most complex mega project in California’s history and was pitched as the new backbone of a new green state wide transportation system. It’s not just “one line”, prop 1A required that a bunch of additional investments go into feeder passenger rail, bus rapid transit, etc.
The cross valley corridor, the high desert corridor, Brightline West, these are all large transportation projects that are tied to CA HSR and would not have been possible without HSR.
Zephyr is insufferable, I’m sorry. She offered next to nothing substantive and was kinda rude to Ezra imo.
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This was a brutal listen, like I genuinely question if Zephyr even bothered to read the book. The Berniecrat resistance to Abundance is crazy to me, part of me thinks it’s viewed as a threat to their wings push for power within the party since they gain support if the moderates can’t provide a positive alternative to the progressives. But at the same time, there really seems to be an inability to even comprehend the outline Ezra is providing.
Like let’s be real, it wouldn’t take much effort for them to co-opt Abundance into a progressive message, but they’re not even bothering to try. The fact that easier to build green energy in *Texas* than California just does not compute, if it doesn’t fit into the “oligarchy is the one and only problem”, they won’t even acknowledge that an issue is there. I can’t understand how they don’t see that the problems in blue states that Ezra points out are problems for them achieving their goals as well.
In this Zepher says that she thinks the North Star of the Democratic party should be anti-monopoly politics. Maybe I need to read some books on this, but I feel like anti-monopolists are really overestimating how much their policy framework can accomplish.
The left, once again, is trash, and is ideologically deeply married to opposition to good governance
It’s very similar to One Billion Americans. The public response just literally could not comprehend that doing more was possible.
I lived in probably the single most walkable neighborhood in a red state (also on national register of historic places) and a new restaurant is opening. Beautiful building, no parking (brilliant idea to lease spots from a nearby law firm for valet, as their lots are empty at night). The sheer vitriol of residents over the lack of parking was insane. I couldn’t comprehend it as I assumed those who chose to live here wanted a car light lifestyle. But the malthusian degrowth hoa petty tyrant assumptions run very very deep in the us on the left as well as the right.
Saying CA HSR has had so many problems because it wasn’t a big enough project is insane to me.
Its the biggest most complex mega project in California’s history and was pitched as the new backbone of a new green state wide transportation system. It’s not just “one line”, prop 1A required that a bunch of additional investments go into feeder passenger rail, bus rapid transit, etc.
The cross valley corridor, the high desert corridor, Brightline West, these are all large transportation projects that are tied to CA HSR and would not have been possible without HSR.
Zephyr is insufferable, I’m sorry. She offered next to nothing substantive and was kinda rude to Ezra imo.