Brad DeLong Watch: Terminological Nits with Caldwell http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/03/05/brad-delong-watch/
Source date (UTC): 2012-03-05 14:11:57 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/176671396477407235
Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response
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Brad DeLong Watch: Terminological Nits with Caldwell
Brad takes issue with Chris Caldwell’s assertion that the republican party is not where wealth votes:
It takes a somewhat weird failure to look at the cross-tabs to arrive at the conclusion that the Democratic Party is the party of “billionaires, academics, minorities and single women” and the Republican Party is the party of “landscape gardeners, construction workers, truckers.” For one thing, landscape gardeners throughout much of the country are now overwhelmingly Hispanic, and less and less likely to vote Republican with each passing day…
via Brad DeLong.
But Brad is using a convenient play on words. High finance is in bed with the democrats, and big oil is in bed with the republicans. “Billionaires” was a bad choice of pejorative language. He should have said “high finance”. So brad is just feeding the fires of dishonest discourse rather than correcting it. That said Chris is still off-base. Republican party is becoming the white party. which is why there is a clock running on its future. And further, it’s why we are not going to have a peaceful resolution of our class warfare: because it’s going to become race warfare. The libertarians have a solution but it’s too late to enact it. Bush was the last president with the opportunity. When one republican defected and ruined his chances of reform, the die was cast. Sometime in the not too distant future it’s going to get very bad here in the states.
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Brad DeLong Watch: Terminological Nits with Caldwell
Brad takes issue with Chris Caldwell’s assertion that the republican party is not where wealth votes:
It takes a somewhat weird failure to look at the cross-tabs to arrive at the conclusion that the Democratic Party is the party of “billionaires, academics, minorities and single women” and the Republican Party is the party of “landscape gardeners, construction workers, truckers.” For one thing, landscape gardeners throughout much of the country are now overwhelmingly Hispanic, and less and less likely to vote Republican with each passing day…
via Brad DeLong.
But Brad is using a convenient play on words. High finance is in bed with the democrats, and big oil is in bed with the republicans. “Billionaires” was a bad choice of pejorative language. He should have said “high finance”. So brad is just feeding the fires of dishonest discourse rather than correcting it. That said Chris is still off-base. Republican party is becoming the white party. which is why there is a clock running on its future. And further, it’s why we are not going to have a peaceful resolution of our class warfare: because it’s going to become race warfare. The libertarians have a solution but it’s too late to enact it. Bush was the last president with the opportunity. When one republican defected and ruined his chances of reform, the die was cast. Sometime in the not too distant future it’s going to get very bad here in the states.
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Daily Krugman Watch: On Cato and the Kochs
March 5th, 2012 Posted by CurtD Krugman jumps on the Kochs bandwagon today: I replied: Of the libertarian think tanks, Cato is the most policy oriented. The Kochs want to move it more into policy and further away from theory in order to help the republican party platform. (Which doesn’t necessarily bother those of us who are members of more radical think tanks.) While I understand that you have an agenda, it is perfectly reasonable to purge language that polls unfavorably. But you will rarely find a conservative engaging in deceptions on the scale that do liberals. Conservative have a higher standard. The public holds them accountable to a higher standard because they profess a higher standard. But that said, voter manipulation, association with global finance, violence, and systemic corruption are by far predominantly liberal activities. So are we supposed to hold you to the liberal standard? Or the conservative standard? Because you claim a high standard, but by your statements contradict it.
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Daily Krugman Watch: On Cato and the Kochs
March 5th, 2012 Posted by CurtD Krugman jumps on the Kochs bandwagon today: I replied: Of the libertarian think tanks, Cato is the most policy oriented. The Kochs want to move it more into policy and further away from theory in order to help the republican party platform. (Which doesn’t necessarily bother those of us who are members of more radical think tanks.) While I understand that you have an agenda, it is perfectly reasonable to purge language that polls unfavorably. But you will rarely find a conservative engaging in deceptions on the scale that do liberals. Conservative have a higher standard. The public holds them accountable to a higher standard because they profess a higher standard. But that said, voter manipulation, association with global finance, violence, and systemic corruption are by far predominantly liberal activities. So are we supposed to hold you to the liberal standard? Or the conservative standard? Because you claim a high standard, but by your statements contradict it.
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Karl Smith Watch: Learning From Fables
Crises, however, are not fables. They do not exist to teach us lessons or help us learn to mend our ways. The forces at work are utterly indifferent to the narratives we attach to them. Like everything else, they are simply a chain of events. One damned thing after another. Our task is to understand how this chain is likely to unfold and uncover what, if anything, we can do to mitigate the damage.
To which I replied: Again, love you and your work. But you are artificially narrowing the scope of inquiry to suit your biases and calling it truth rather than preference. A longer time preference would argue for different policies, lower fragility, and better individual planning. You have a shorter time preference which suits your bias toward redistribution and allowing increasing birth rates among the lower classes. The average European as a lower IQ than in 1850 for a reason. You are the reason. Actually women are — but you’re a product of that thinking. (Ashkenazim have remained constant from the medieval average, while Europeans have declined.) There are hard conceptual barriers at 105, 122 and 140. And the composition of a population determines its possible norms. Ideas have consequences. In particular, your ideas have consequences.
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Karl Smith Watch: Learning From Fables
Crises, however, are not fables. They do not exist to teach us lessons or help us learn to mend our ways. The forces at work are utterly indifferent to the narratives we attach to them. Like everything else, they are simply a chain of events. One damned thing after another. Our task is to understand how this chain is likely to unfold and uncover what, if anything, we can do to mitigate the damage.
To which I replied: Again, love you and your work. But you are artificially narrowing the scope of inquiry to suit your biases and calling it truth rather than preference. A longer time preference would argue for different policies, lower fragility, and better individual planning. You have a shorter time preference which suits your bias toward redistribution and allowing increasing birth rates among the lower classes. The average European as a lower IQ than in 1850 for a reason. You are the reason. Actually women are — but you’re a product of that thinking. (Ashkenazim have remained constant from the medieval average, while Europeans have declined.) There are hard conceptual barriers at 105, 122 and 140. And the composition of a population determines its possible norms. Ideas have consequences. In particular, your ideas have consequences.
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at Paul Gottfried from a different perspective, and finding good ideas there
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/03/05/a-little-appreciation-for-paul-gottfried/Looking at Paul Gottfried from a different perspective, and finding good ideas there.
Source date (UTC): 2012-03-05 12:28:00 UTC
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wants us to hold him to a lower standard
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/03/05/daily-krugman-watch-on-cato-and-the-kochs/Krugman wants us to hold him to a lower standard.
Source date (UTC): 2012-03-05 09:12:00 UTC
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criticism of Brad Delong
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2012/03/05/brad-delong-watch/Today’s criticism of Brad Delong
Source date (UTC): 2012-03-05 09:10:00 UTC