Andrew Yang for President

[David Horn]

(09-10-2019, 06:38 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang#Policies

There never was an American politician whose views were as similar to mine. Humanity First is the most beautiful election slogan I ever heard.

I like the UBI idea or "freedom dividend" in general, but alcoholics and drug addicts should be exempt from receiving it. Same for people with a history of violent crime or support for terrorist groups, and diagnosed psychopaths.

Your codicil to his dictum is good in theory but impossible in practice.  The addicted will have to be rescued by other means, or the entire idea is unworkable.

Bill the Piper Wrote:I also like it that he has some neocon-like views on foreign policy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang#Policies
Yang called Iran a "destabilizing force in the region". He has backed a more aggressive policy toward Russia: "Russia is our biggest geopolitical threat, because they've been hacking our democracy successfully

The problem is much larger than that, if you talk to the experts.  Here's a commentary from the NY Times that is about 95% accurate, and scary as hell.  I'm much more dove than hawk, but I have enough background in the spook word to know that this is the next wave.  Add cruise missiles that fly at hyper speed (~mach15-25 and already in the testing phase) and it gets worse.  Quantum computing may already exist, but we would never know that.

Bill the Piper Wrote:He also wants to create "a department focused on regulating the addictive nature of media" - another good point.

That's a lot tougher.  The US Constitution may stop that here, but maybe it's possible elsewhere.

Bill the Piper Wrote:Do you think he would be a 4T or 1T leader?

He sounds pretty 1T to me.