Completely agree with your assessment of Rep. Ro Khanna. His whole schtick is to come off as cordial, friendly, likable, which are all good things and I'm not complaining about it. But in his case, it disguises how he really views the populace at large. He is, as you say, a full-on progressive who, once in power, would be more frightening to me than the more obvious and less competent Kamala Harris. Khanna is very skilled at how he presents himself. Pay attention to how he votes and what he says. I do expect him to run for President in the next cycle. And, if you love your government large and intrusive, he'll be the candidate for you. With a smile.
I once heard the comment that Bill Gates , Jeff Bezos, etc really don't fear the government or taxes what they fear is the next guy (non gender specific of course) in their garage with a better Idea. The Ro Khannas of the world will make sure those guys on their garages don't have a chance and that's why the Titans of Silicon Valley will continue to support.the "progressives"
I think this might be the best post you have written, I can't figure it out either. I was in startups in the 90's and early 2000s. We couldn't ask permission even if we wanted to because there were no rules. We didn't talk that much about politics back then, thank goodness. Everybody was just focused on building. I guess if you have made it, you have time to put up roadblocks for others? Or maybe they like the government because it stops others from doing what they have already done?
much of the easy stuff has been built-hence no worries about politics. In the last ten years, Startup Land got political. Instead of building stuff to just solve problems for big markets, it was "Let's use entrepreneurship to build stuff to solve social problems." Entire universities pivoted (See University of Chicago for one example but there are plenty of others). Much of the stuff today that needs to be built is hard, and rubs up against government regulations. See Tesla, Space X etc. One under rated quality of Musk is he seems to know which government orgs/regs he can rub up against and win.
Since the Population Bomb came out the Paul Erlich's of the world have done their work well in regulating all of the United States' work to slaves in undeveloped countries that are now attacking us.
Perhaps it was and still is The Marshall Plan.
Fuckers. All of them. Trump is rightly trying to regulate THEM out of here. Funny how he is the only president to lose wealth and freedom...
Ro Khanna was on a long form podcast with Bishop Bob Barron, and did a pretty good job of coming across as a moderate on economic issues and generally being in favor of civil society and civil discourse.
He flops when Bishop Barron quizzes him on social issues and Khanna's lack of tolerance for a pluralistic society, where people of good will can object to things like men using the women's locker room. Khanna seems completely unaware as to why people might consider it to be a problem when the government doesn't allow dissent and pluralism.
The whole thing is pretty good though. Khanna is much smarter and much more affable than most Democrat politicians.
I disagree. He is polite and pleasant. That counts for a huge advantage with voters like myself. I am very conservative, but give a nod to a hail-fellow-well-met 100x over a psychotic like Jan Schakowsky or Pelosi.
Completely agree with your assessment of Rep. Ro Khanna. His whole schtick is to come off as cordial, friendly, likable, which are all good things and I'm not complaining about it. But in his case, it disguises how he really views the populace at large. He is, as you say, a full-on progressive who, once in power, would be more frightening to me than the more obvious and less competent Kamala Harris. Khanna is very skilled at how he presents himself. Pay attention to how he votes and what he says. I do expect him to run for President in the next cycle. And, if you love your government large and intrusive, he'll be the candidate for you. With a smile.
I once heard the comment that Bill Gates , Jeff Bezos, etc really don't fear the government or taxes what they fear is the next guy (non gender specific of course) in their garage with a better Idea. The Ro Khannas of the world will make sure those guys on their garages don't have a chance and that's why the Titans of Silicon Valley will continue to support.the "progressives"
I think this might be the best post you have written, I can't figure it out either. I was in startups in the 90's and early 2000s. We couldn't ask permission even if we wanted to because there were no rules. We didn't talk that much about politics back then, thank goodness. Everybody was just focused on building. I guess if you have made it, you have time to put up roadblocks for others? Or maybe they like the government because it stops others from doing what they have already done?
much of the easy stuff has been built-hence no worries about politics. In the last ten years, Startup Land got political. Instead of building stuff to just solve problems for big markets, it was "Let's use entrepreneurship to build stuff to solve social problems." Entire universities pivoted (See University of Chicago for one example but there are plenty of others). Much of the stuff today that needs to be built is hard, and rubs up against government regulations. See Tesla, Space X etc. One under rated quality of Musk is he seems to know which government orgs/regs he can rub up against and win.
Since the Population Bomb came out the Paul Erlich's of the world have done their work well in regulating all of the United States' work to slaves in undeveloped countries that are now attacking us.
Perhaps it was and still is The Marshall Plan.
Fuckers. All of them. Trump is rightly trying to regulate THEM out of here. Funny how he is the only president to lose wealth and freedom...
Ro Khanna was on a long form podcast with Bishop Bob Barron, and did a pretty good job of coming across as a moderate on economic issues and generally being in favor of civil society and civil discourse.
He flops when Bishop Barron quizzes him on social issues and Khanna's lack of tolerance for a pluralistic society, where people of good will can object to things like men using the women's locker room. Khanna seems completely unaware as to why people might consider it to be a problem when the government doesn't allow dissent and pluralism.
The whole thing is pretty good though. Khanna is much smarter and much more affable than most Democrat politicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0D2Gpxo4E4
Ro is a typical progressive grifter. When you shake his hand, count your fingers to make sure they are all still there.
I disagree. He is polite and pleasant. That counts for a huge advantage with voters like myself. I am very conservative, but give a nod to a hail-fellow-well-met 100x over a psychotic like Jan Schakowsky or Pelosi.
His allegiance is to the Democratic Party
Not country not family not GOD