USA 2020 Elections: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 01:29:59 PDT 2022


Is The Woke Cultural Agenda Of Union Leaders Undermining Support For
Organized Labor Groups?
https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/is-the-woke-cultural-agenda-of-union
...
In other words, Americans who truly care about a stable and thriving
working class, one that has access to the American Dream, would do
well to learn what workers understand: that more unites us than
divides us. In other words, politicians and pundits and journalists
and influencers who seek to advance workers’ causes should stop trying
to lead and should start following.



California's Vanished Dream, By The Numbers
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/04/13/californias_vanished_dream_by_the_numbers_826300.html
https://joelkotkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Restoring_the_California_Dream.pdf
Even today amid a mounting exodus among those who can afford it, and
with its appeal diminished to businesses and newcomers, California,
legendary state of American dreams, continues to inspire optimism
among progressive boosters.
Laura Tyson, the longtime Democratic economist now at the University
of California at Berkeley, praises the state for creating “the way
forward” to a more enlightened “market capitalism.” Like-minded
analysts tout Silicon Valley’s massive wealth generation as evidence
of progressivism’s promise. The Los Angeles Times suggested
approvingly that the Biden administration’s goal is to “make America
California again.” And, despite dark prospects in November’s midterm
elections, the President and his party still seem intent on proving
it.
But most Californians, according to recent surveys, see things
differently. They point to rising poverty and inequality, believe the
state is in recession and that it is headed in the wrong direction.
Parting with the state’s cheerleaders, the New York Times’ Ezra Klein,
a reliable progressive and native Californian, says the Golden State’s
failures are “making liberals squirm.”
Reality may well be worse than even Klein admits. In a new report for
Chapman University, my colleagues and I find California in a state of
existential crisis, losing both its middle-aged and middle class,
while its poor population faces dimming prospects. Despite the state’s
myriad advantages, research shows it plagued by economic immobility
and inequality, crushing housing and energy costs, and a failing
education system. Worse than just a case of progressive policies
creating regressive outcomes, it appears California is descending into
something resembling modern-day feudalism, with the poor and weak
trapped by policies subsidized by taxes paid by the rich and powerful.
...
California today is as old as the rest of the country and aging 50
percent faster than the national norm.
It is rapidly replacing the surfboard with a walker.


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