03-13-2022, 09:01 AM
As usual, I'll start by example (moderate conservative/libertarian)
1) Externalities are a thing. Most economic text books devote like 1 page to them, when really they need at least a whole course to properly explain, because they are the norm with regards to real-world behavior, not the exception.
2) I understand the contempt many right wingers hold for the moral high ground games so often played by our opponents, but at the same time...we've become so averse to approaching. things from this angle that people have forgotten that we even have morality to begin with. If people have no idea what your values are in the first place (and studies have shown that, with conservatives, most people don't), you have a problem.
3) Rhetorically, conservatives are supposed to be the "steady hand" that provides stability and tradition, while liberals are supposed to be the "rebel against the system!" side of politics. In practice, what I see is the exact opposite. Mainstream conservative politics needs to chill with the Alex Joneses and Gordon Gekkos and take back the frame of being the "sensible, down to earth" image.
4) Ideally, our beliefs and policies should speak for themselves regardless of race, but in practice, they don't. We need to make a more conscious effort to communicate "capitalism still works for you if you're latino", "conservatism still works for you if you're black".
5) Similarly, I think we need to make attempts to appeal to more types of personalities. Don't get me wrong, I love scrappy entrepreneurs and sinister Lex Luthor financiers (I am a stock trader, this is me and about half my friends, and I don't regret it for a second), but.....90% of people have nothing in common for that. You can't form an entire political party or ideology based on a niche personality and expect it to work.
6) You have to at least fund the basics like transit and infrastructure so people can actually...get to work.
7) Aren't we supposed to be the "social responsibility" side of politics? That's kinda the role conservatives play pretty much everywhere else. It only seems logical for us to return to that a bit.
8) The "just learn to code"/"embrace the gig economy" shtick is not working. Most people are not high IQ enough to do that.
9) People getting rich because they were intelligent or productive is great. Allowing a system which is lose enough for the winners to buy up the game entirely? .....no. We should have been much more cynical about the possibility from the outset. The new wave of formerly-liberal right wingers really have a point when they criticize us for not doing enough to curb those tendencies in the past. Checks and balances have to apply to any powerful organization, not just the government. Otherwise you end up with a world of corrupt bureaucracy and the illusion of accountability.
1) Externalities are a thing. Most economic text books devote like 1 page to them, when really they need at least a whole course to properly explain, because they are the norm with regards to real-world behavior, not the exception.
2) I understand the contempt many right wingers hold for the moral high ground games so often played by our opponents, but at the same time...we've become so averse to approaching. things from this angle that people have forgotten that we even have morality to begin with. If people have no idea what your values are in the first place (and studies have shown that, with conservatives, most people don't), you have a problem.
3) Rhetorically, conservatives are supposed to be the "steady hand" that provides stability and tradition, while liberals are supposed to be the "rebel against the system!" side of politics. In practice, what I see is the exact opposite. Mainstream conservative politics needs to chill with the Alex Joneses and Gordon Gekkos and take back the frame of being the "sensible, down to earth" image.
4) Ideally, our beliefs and policies should speak for themselves regardless of race, but in practice, they don't. We need to make a more conscious effort to communicate "capitalism still works for you if you're latino", "conservatism still works for you if you're black".
5) Similarly, I think we need to make attempts to appeal to more types of personalities. Don't get me wrong, I love scrappy entrepreneurs and sinister Lex Luthor financiers (I am a stock trader, this is me and about half my friends, and I don't regret it for a second), but.....90% of people have nothing in common for that. You can't form an entire political party or ideology based on a niche personality and expect it to work.
6) You have to at least fund the basics like transit and infrastructure so people can actually...get to work.
7) Aren't we supposed to be the "social responsibility" side of politics? That's kinda the role conservatives play pretty much everywhere else. It only seems logical for us to return to that a bit.
8) The "just learn to code"/"embrace the gig economy" shtick is not working. Most people are not high IQ enough to do that.
9) People getting rich because they were intelligent or productive is great. Allowing a system which is lose enough for the winners to buy up the game entirely? .....no. We should have been much more cynical about the possibility from the outset. The new wave of formerly-liberal right wingers really have a point when they criticize us for not doing enough to curb those tendencies in the past. Checks and balances have to apply to any powerful organization, not just the government. Otherwise you end up with a world of corrupt bureaucracy and the illusion of accountability.
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