It’s a reasonable statement, what you’ve written. Certainly true to some extent. Rational thought and an abundance of circumstantial evidence has been on our side for some time; and yet I sense an overall willingness to believe that all smoke only comes from fires. Hopefully we stay true to our roots lest we one day become the trolled.
(Let the downvotes commence)
This is an excellent tactic, especially your last point about being the voice from the middle. I’d even go further and say that not being the voice from the middle runs the risk of being counterproductive as it will be seen as confirmation of everything normies see and hear on MSM.
I’ve found a lot of success converting some people that were pretty far to the left of woke and think this topic is worthy of a nice long discussion. I’ll stop by later to reply again or make a separate post if this doesn’t gain much traction, but my co-workers probably think I fell into the toilet if I stay much longer.
At least we know you’re not a bot!
20% + 16% + 20% + 44% + 10% + ??? = 110% + ???
So— one thing to keep in mind is the context of the crisis Reagan was facing as he entered office. Aging factories could not keep up with surplus demand, opening the floodgates foreign products. American factories aged and went without updates because the cost of capital was too high and investors and those individuals with excess capital largely felt it was a better investment to hang on to cash rather than invest it. (The marginal tax rate for the highest earners was upwards of 70% in 1980 vs 37% from 2021. Fed funds was ~19% as Reagan entered office as well)
Reagan’s policies of “trickle down” economics worked almost too well, as it resulted in a flurry of new investment activity, resulting in the small business gains cited elsewhere, among others. Significant investment dollars ultimately and certainly unintentionally poured into microchip technologies, which distributed most of the wealth of the era into the hands of information workers, and in many ways left factory workers behind. This resulted in the significant wealth gap we see today.
So, I think it’s a bit unfair to say that trickle down was not a great policy; because at the time it did what was needed. At the same time, we can’t look to Reagan’s policies and expect a similar solution today.
First thing I thought of too: https://files.catbox.moe/l5jhkp.mp4
I think it’s great how Elon has stirred the pot here, and I have my popcorn for sure; but, we need to also keep perspective that there is an absolutely possible scenario where twitter sources and accepts a higher bid, and Elon makes off handsomely.
It’s not what I’m hoping for, but it is possible.
Glad to see this sticky. I’ve dragged two of the more cynical lawyers in my family to watch one of his shows (they expected him to be some conspiracy nut by association), but were surprised; bigly.
He’s not completely unbiased, but neither are we, nor is any good advocate, and he does it in a way without too much hyperbole, blending fact, sarcasm, and real-time questions into a family-friendly prime time show. (unless you take yourself too seriously).
Cheers Rob. Keep it up.