Normally I agree with you, but I don’t think you are paying attention to Walz’s commitment to worker power. Vance just wants to make everything work from the top down. That’s helpful to a point (like Warren, for example , but is no substitute for workers organizing from the ground up. That’s what the people at Waffle House - who make a few dollars an hour - are trying to do.
I wouldn’t have an issue with Ivy League schools dominating our political institutions, if the people coming from those schools were thoughtful, pragmatic and competent. Unfortunately, that’s not the case right now. The people leaving these schools appear to be garden variety ideologues in the thrall of various luxury beliefs. We should embrace good ideas wherever they come from. That’s just not happening right now from Ivy League schools.
While I agree to taxing their endowments, Vance’s stance is just part of trying to destroy liberal institutions altogether. Which is actually Walz’s point, Vance’s hypocrisy, not his success. They rail against “the elites” and the Ivys, and pretend to be pro working class. But Vance and Co. ARE elitists, educated at those elite institutes, and the anti-elitist stance is just a farce. They’re anti any elites slightly left of center and beyond. As with the faux concern over anti semitism on those same campuses they have a larger idea of control behind their public stance.
Heh. If you’re not part of the elite, you’re not worth talking to. If you are part of the elite, you’re a hypocrite. Talk about your self sealing arguments….
Democrats are focused on rich *people* not rich institutions or cities or (non-corporate, non-profitmaking) orgs, even though they overlap. Going after the Ivy League looks like an attack on sacred educational ground, which is directly in Dems' wheelhouse. It plays into the Republicans as anti-intellectual knuckle draggers theme.
Off the top of my head, Vance didn’t show up to vote on the extension of the child care tax credit while 44 of his GOP brethren voted against it though he now claims to be for it.
This "you're assigned an economic class at birth and bettet stay in it" shtick of the Democrats is...really something
Normally I agree with you, but I don’t think you are paying attention to Walz’s commitment to worker power. Vance just wants to make everything work from the top down. That’s helpful to a point (like Warren, for example , but is no substitute for workers organizing from the ground up. That’s what the people at Waffle House - who make a few dollars an hour - are trying to do.
I wouldn’t have an issue with Ivy League schools dominating our political institutions, if the people coming from those schools were thoughtful, pragmatic and competent. Unfortunately, that’s not the case right now. The people leaving these schools appear to be garden variety ideologues in the thrall of various luxury beliefs. We should embrace good ideas wherever they come from. That’s just not happening right now from Ivy League schools.
I could say for different reasons likely neither will affect actual policy but at least Vance stands ready to.
I am not for special ivy taxes. Neither am I for the recent bandied about tax on golf games.
While I agree to taxing their endowments, Vance’s stance is just part of trying to destroy liberal institutions altogether. Which is actually Walz’s point, Vance’s hypocrisy, not his success. They rail against “the elites” and the Ivys, and pretend to be pro working class. But Vance and Co. ARE elitists, educated at those elite institutes, and the anti-elitist stance is just a farce. They’re anti any elites slightly left of center and beyond. As with the faux concern over anti semitism on those same campuses they have a larger idea of control behind their public stance.
Heh. If you’re not part of the elite, you’re not worth talking to. If you are part of the elite, you’re a hypocrite. Talk about your self sealing arguments….
Democrats are focused on rich *people* not rich institutions or cities or (non-corporate, non-profitmaking) orgs, even though they overlap. Going after the Ivy League looks like an attack on sacred educational ground, which is directly in Dems' wheelhouse. It plays into the Republicans as anti-intellectual knuckle draggers theme.
Off the top of my head, Vance didn’t show up to vote on the extension of the child care tax credit while 44 of his GOP brethren voted against it though he now claims to be for it.