It’s easy to lose a war when you choose not to fight.
One of the best and worst things about the Democratic party is that they listen to experts. They are technocrats, through and through. This is honestly a great thing, most of the time. It’s good to listen to public health experts, or climate and environmental experts, etc. What’s not so great, however, is when the experts get it wrong. The technocrats end up following them because that’s what technocrats do, they listen to experts, or they are the experts themselves.
The political science and economic experts in the US have been suffering from chronic hubris ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This hubris has infected the Democratic party. The political science and economic experts aren’t learning from their mistakes, and thus neither are the Democrats. Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
The political science and economic experts in the US have been suffering from chronic hubris ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This hubris has infected the Democratic party. The political science and economic experts aren’t learning from their mistakes, and thus neither are the Democrats. Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
The thing about these experts is that these fields have major physics envy where they use complex math to solve these problems which hides massive incorrect assumptions that break everything. They want to be like physics where math can be used to predict what is happening but politics and economics are not controlled by nature but things made up by humans. They are fundamentally more interconnected and random. With these fields its better to be incorrect like all of your peers than being the lone voice that is correct.
They certainly can, but they don’t have to. The problem is the experts who are slow, or unwilling to change their theories and ideas, even as real world events expose those theories as incomplete, at best.
Many mainstream economics experts did not see the great recession coming. They were blindsided by it. Did those experts humble themselves and try to figure out how they had such a significant blind spot? No, most did not. Most just wrote it off as an anomaly and doubled down on their theories. This was a massive mistake, because the great recession was a major contributor to the US becoming the politically chaotic country it is today. Being a good governor, and being good at winning elections, are both served by officials and experts who are willing to admit when they are wrong and make the necessary changes.
The traits that make Democrats good at governing make them bad at winning elections. There are other ways to be good at governing and definitely better experts they could be listening to. There is no reason they should have been listening to experts on how to win elections in the 1990s for a campaign in 2024. Hell, Trump is more of an expert in Winning elections than corrupt Democratic consultants.
It’s easy to lose a war when you choose not to fight.
One of the best and worst things about the Democratic party is that they listen to experts. They are technocrats, through and through. This is honestly a great thing, most of the time. It’s good to listen to public health experts, or climate and environmental experts, etc. What’s not so great, however, is when the experts get it wrong. The technocrats end up following them because that’s what technocrats do, they listen to experts, or they are the experts themselves.
The political science and economic experts in the US have been suffering from chronic hubris ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This hubris has infected the Democratic party. The political science and economic experts aren’t learning from their mistakes, and thus neither are the Democrats. Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
The thing about these experts is that these fields have major physics envy where they use complex math to solve these problems which hides massive incorrect assumptions that break everything. They want to be like physics where math can be used to predict what is happening but politics and economics are not controlled by nature but things made up by humans. They are fundamentally more interconnected and random. With these fields its better to be incorrect like all of your peers than being the lone voice that is correct.
In other words: The traits that make you good a governing also make you bad at winning elections.
They certainly can, but they don’t have to. The problem is the experts who are slow, or unwilling to change their theories and ideas, even as real world events expose those theories as incomplete, at best.
Many mainstream economics experts did not see the great recession coming. They were blindsided by it. Did those experts humble themselves and try to figure out how they had such a significant blind spot? No, most did not. Most just wrote it off as an anomaly and doubled down on their theories. This was a massive mistake, because the great recession was a major contributor to the US becoming the politically chaotic country it is today. Being a good governor, and being good at winning elections, are both served by officials and experts who are willing to admit when they are wrong and make the necessary changes.
The traits that make Democrats good at governing make them bad at winning elections. There are other ways to be good at governing and definitely better experts they could be listening to. There is no reason they should have been listening to experts on how to win elections in the 1990s for a campaign in 2024. Hell, Trump is more of an expert in Winning elections than corrupt Democratic consultants.