“The politics of stupid” is a winner. I plan to steal it often - ThreadSky

pkrugman.bsky.social • 146 days ago

“The politics of stupid” is a winner. I plan to steal it often

New post: The politics of stupid
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The politics of stupid is believing that the way to deal with Farage or Trump type populism is to do what Farage or Trump happens to be shouting about at the time.

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patrickford.bsky.social•144 days ago

Everyone working so hard to explain things when the real answer is obvious. Republicans (insert equivalent) are scum.

joelgrant.bsky.social•146 days ago

How about the politics of reality? We need a simple, honest message that we can repeat with variations over and over. Unlike the lies about 'woke' and immigrants, we need a message that lives in reality such as: the oligarchs are the enemy let us band together to take our country back.

ginnystibolt.bsky.social•146 days ago

I will miss your insightful columns in the NYTimes, but happy to have found you here.

wikisteff.bsky.social•146 days ago

This is blatantly exceptional article, Paul.

urbansocrates.bsky.social•146 days ago

How does one apply this approach on right wing media outlets? I think it would be difficult.

cincyblog.bsky.social•146 days ago

“Find your own stupid” would be better advice as politicking ends up being just a marketing exercise. Get the idiots to buy your soap because it’s the cleanest.

jimh49.bsky.social•146 days ago

The problem is that stupid people are much better at it than people faking stupidity.

brianwroten.bsky.social•146 days ago

It’s just another term for “Idiocracy”.

lynne-sails.bsky.social•146 days ago

Hilariously, I photoshopped this just this morning...

https://bsky.app/profile/lynne-sails.bsky.social/post/3lcxgbzyiak22

litlnemo.slumberland.org•146 days ago

🎵 The politics of stupid 🎶
🎵 The politics of ooh, feeling dumb 🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WQGJ5sYvc

tommccallum.com•146 days ago

Another from Iain Banks: "“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”

overlord.bsky.social•146 days ago

Democrats have been accepting Republican framing of issues since 1981. Dems accept Republican policies and then just offer a "light" version. Fail plan.

If Democrats want to win, they must have their own agenda of supporting the 99% vs the 1%.

Reaganonmics Light has been a loser for 40+ years.

adammurphymusic.bsky.social•146 days ago

New slogan for US elections —
"It's the stupidity, Stupid!"

bdfnyc.bsky.social•146 days ago

Oh wow, simon is still posting? I gotta look this up!

masguk.bsky.social•146 days ago

Importing cheap labour to manualise previously automated and productive work isn’t improving the overall health of an economy. Good example being car washing, importing migrants to wash cars by hand when we had automated car washes lowers the average income and places a burden on society.

lynne-sails.bsky.social•146 days ago

Nobody's doing this. Never seen something that was automated suddenly change back to manual labor. But a lot of agri *can't* be automated with current tech; same for health svs like eldercare. Or a lot of construction. Fact is, we need immigration, tho I am not for superlow wages, it's inhumane.

masguk.bsky.social•146 days ago

So you haven’t seen a proper car wash machine ? Access to cheap labour stops the incentive to progress and automate tasks that can be. We will always need manual labour but I feel easy access has slowed progress.

lynne-sails.bsky.social•146 days ago

The hells you talking about?? Most car washes are automated, and I've never seen one that was *already* automated suddenly change back to manual cheap labor, which is what you insinuated. An armchair economist, you aren't even. Maybe cite something to back up your weird assertion.

masguk.bsky.social•146 days ago

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/04/what-can-a-car-wash-tell-us-about-the-uks-productivity/#:~:text=And%2C%20inevitably%20in%20a%20country,wage%2C%20low%2Dproductivity%20trap.

masguk.bsky.social•146 days ago

“The return to an inefficient, labour-intensive model – as with the hand car wash – is therefore an odd regression. It is only possible in a rich economy like the UK’s because labour is relatively cheap. People working these kinds of jobs, in part, explains the UK’s productivity problem”.

masguk.bsky.social•146 days ago

So you haven’t got loads of manual car washes operated by low paid immigrants where you are ? Cheap labour has resulted in regression.

lynne-sails.bsky.social•146 days ago

I'm not entirely convinced weforum is a good place to get all your info, frankly. Brexit pooched the UK economically worse then "imported labor"; if wages are depressed after you closed your borders (didn't you all suffer a delivery driver shortage??) it's due to that.

cjcarpenter.bsky.social•146 days ago

Interesting article, but it seems to cling to the idea that "facts" matter in dealing with what are essentially "faith based" people and their issues. You need to give them something else to believe in, someone else to hate.

zimjay.bsky.social•146 days ago

Not Politics when your subjects are just shitty Russian theatrics. Come on, man.

blueskyyea.bsky.social•146 days ago

You sure you need to steal it?

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