If you cheer for catastrophe to happen so that you can implement your desired radical social and political change, you're doing it wrong.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) May 16, 2015
That seems to describe how the left wanted the 2008 financial problem to get worse in order to get Obama elected, who would user in a ‘New Deal’ that would punish the rich and financial institutions. The left seeks crisis as a way to ‘reset’ or reshuffle the system to a more egalitarian state, where their policies can be implemented in the reconstruction.
We were promised gray goo, killer robots, and nuclear holocaust, and all we got was this rich boring consumer society.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) May 16, 2015
Let me rephrase that…we were promised by the left Great Depression 2.0 and all we got was this rich, boring 6+ year bull market and web 2.0 boom.
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