Anonymous wrote:It may not help us win elections, but it's psychologically easier to write off Gen Z as dumd and racist than to ask ourselves why our party doesn't appeal to them.

Young people are natural Democrats. But we've somehow managed to lose them. Not a good development.

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Anonymous wrote:The current Democratic party obsessive veneration of and "belief" in "The Experts" is hilarious. It's proof positive that the party platform has been taken over by upper middle class strivers. "Climate Scientists" have graduate degrees just like we lawyers and lobbyists do, so they MUST be smart! Saint Fauci is amazing! We must mask the children!"

It's weird seeing the self-described "intellectual" party be so willfully naive on incentives.

In fact climate scientists ARE just like lawyers and lobbyists, they provide their services to the people and groups who pay for them. Are there big financial or career incentives for coming to NON-alarmist positions on the theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming? No, there are not. Quite the contrary, in fact. To be insufficiently alarmist in climate science is to commit career suicide. And lo and behold, "Climate Scientists" know this, so they tend to publish alarmist papers. And the few "lukewarmers" who deviate from the alarmist political line quickly find their grants and publication opportunities drying up.

It's like "well-educated" Democrats have never heard of career incentives, or status signaling, or public choice theory. Public choice theory is a well-established academic discipline that explains the common phenomenon of regulatory capture. But Democrats seem not to have heard of it or not to understand it.

Reread your first sentence a couple of times, and think about how moronic you sound. You sound lime quite the conspiracy nut. I know a lot of scientists and climate scientists. They just want to do their job. The mask mandate and other covid precautions were the same all over the world. I’m a teacher, and kids did not care about the masks. The only ones who complained were the kids of maga parents. Many continued to wear them when they weren’t required.

Anonymous wrote:The current Democratic party obsessive veneration of and "belief" in "The Experts" is hilarious. It's proof positive that the party platform has been taken over by upper middle class strivers. "Climate Scientists" have graduate degrees just like we lawyers and lobbyists do, so they MUST be smart! Saint Fauci is amazing! We must mask the children!"

It's weird seeing the self-described "intellectual" party be so willfully naive on incentives.

In fact climate scientists ARE just like lawyers and lobbyists, they provide their services to the people and groups who pay for them. Are there big financial or career incentives for coming to NON-alarmist positions on the theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming? No, there are not. Quite the contrary, in fact. To be insufficiently alarmist in climate science is to commit career suicide. And lo and behold, "Climate Scientists" know this, so they tend to publish alarmist papers. And the few "lukewarmers" who deviate from the alarmist political line quickly find their grants and publication opportunities drying up.

It's like "well-educated" Democrats have never heard of career incentives, or status signaling, or public choice theory. Public choice theory is a well-established academic discipline that explains the common phenomenon of regulatory capture. But Democrats seem not to have heard of it or not to understand it.

Anonymous wrote:The Democrats' behavior during Covid was a permanent turnoff for young people.

"We didn't know that force-masking children was wrong! We didn't know that forcing people to get experimental injections or be banned from society was wrong!"

Covid Karens may have felt virtuous in the heat of the moment. But they were suiciding their political party.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.city-journal.org/article/manhattan-institute-focus-group-gen-z-republicans

Grab a glass of wine and scroll with morbid curiosity and horror