Yeah, the Huey Long Leftist I have always said that even though I dont think all of their ideas would work (I am actually not totally dissuaded on the tax policy he came up with) and that they tend to overlook the problems that came with Long's ideas (there is a reason Louisiana was/is one of the most corrupt and underdeveloped states in the nation), if they won an election I could at least live with it and survive until the next one, and be with some simple "Told you so" when things happen and might not go according to plan. After all, I at least trust they would listen.
As opposed to the Mamdani or AOC types, who would make me start counting my ammo and double checking that I am sure on who my battle buddies are.
Honestly, with some of the arguments he got up to recently, it seems like Dev took the even more bizarre and unhinged answer of he seems to unironically think that the government is always right, and that we should be some technocracy of expert elites. Which is such a bizarre take because it is literally the system we have been living under that he calls out issues with all the time. But I guess he just became like the Leftist he used to decry and is like 5 seconds away from saying "Real Technocracy hasnt been tried yet!"
And, oh god. They would absolutely call Long a Fascist when they saw his anti-crime policy. If he took one look at any New Orleans and just be like, "Well that dog just don't hunt! Aw ight. We goin' clear it out tonight. Rattle 'em, boys!"
Yes, there is a brain worm in the "lib-dem" if I can describe people by a british party, which makes them think that the "experts" know literally everything, when in reality they are about as well informed, or more so, than the people they are listening to.
It is possible that a technocracy could exist, but it would have to exist with a level of such high integrity for civil governance that it would be near utopian. Unfortunately, technocracy has always been a Socialist pipe-dream and rationalization of political power. They always claimed that Socialism and Communism were the only "rational" way to run things, and it was persuasive in 1890, but sure as shit not any more.
Yeah, the Huey Long Leftist I have always said that even though I dont think all of their ideas would work (I am actually not totally dissuaded on the tax policy he came up with) and that they tend to overlook the problems that came with Long's ideas (there is a reason Louisiana was/is one of the most corrupt and underdeveloped states in the nation), if they won an election I could at least live with it and survive until the next one, and be with some simple "Told you so" when things happen and might not go according to plan. After all, I at least trust they would listen.
As opposed to the Mamdani or AOC types, who would make me start counting my ammo and double checking that I am sure on who my battle buddies are.
Honestly, with some of the arguments he got up to recently, it seems like Dev took the even more bizarre and unhinged answer of he seems to unironically think that the government is always right, and that we should be some technocracy of expert elites. Which is such a bizarre take because it is literally the system we have been living under that he calls out issues with all the time. But I guess he just became like the Leftist he used to decry and is like 5 seconds away from saying "Real Technocracy hasnt been tried yet!"
And, oh god. They would absolutely call Long a Fascist when they saw his anti-crime policy. If he took one look at any New Orleans and just be like, "Well that dog just don't hunt! Aw ight. We goin' clear it out tonight. Rattle 'em, boys!"
Yes, there is a brain worm in the "lib-dem" if I can describe people by a british party, which makes them think that the "experts" know literally everything, when in reality they are about as well informed, or more so, than the people they are listening to.
It is possible that a technocracy could exist, but it would have to exist with a level of such high integrity for civil governance that it would be near utopian. Unfortunately, technocracy has always been a Socialist pipe-dream and rationalization of political power. They always claimed that Socialism and Communism were the only "rational" way to run things, and it was persuasive in 1890, but sure as shit not any more.