• Aidinthel@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    This is an important part of it. The other part is the fact that success in politics is very hard without money, and most rich people aren’t progressives.

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      8 months ago

      In no country in the world is the progressive party the main attractor of wealth. Progress means change that will lessen the comparative advantage of the wealthy.

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          8 months ago

          I think it’s extremely arguable whether Gavin Newsom is a progressive or not. Actually I don’t, he isn’t.

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            8 months ago

            No, but Progressives are in power. We’re not a dictatorship. The one person in the chief executive office is not the entire government.

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          Halarious to read as a non-american cause sure California is the best of y’all, but it is NOT progressive compared of some of the world

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            8 months ago

            Tired of this whole “America is conservative to the rest of the world” thing. No, it is conservative compared to Europe, specifically. I don’t mind making the comparison. But the arrogance of equating Europe with “the world” frustrates me.

            California is extremely progressive compared to Russia, Saudi Arabia, India…just not, specifically, compared to western Europe.

            Stop with the Eurocentrism.