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Unpopular opinion: Republicans could win elections fairly easily on general culture-war exhaustion, if they just implemented universal health care. Nixon was smart about this (though he failed). Trump is stupid. Dismantling the ACA = rocket fuel for the Democrats.
Here was Nixon touting universal health insurance: khn.org/news/nixon-pro…
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Universal health care wouldn't fix everything that's wrong with American capitalism, but it would take so much wind out of progressives' and socialists' sails that the Republicans are insane for not embracing it.
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"...and everybody hates the Jews"

- Tom Lehrer
I've been thinking about why anti-semitism is so attractive, and TBH I think it's just that Jews seem like a soft target. There just aren't that many Jews in the world so it feels safer to go after them.
There are only maybe 15 to 17 million Jews on the whole planet. If your political fantasy narratives require a cabal of sneaky manipulative evil wizards, you might as well pick a small group of people to vilify.
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Animal rights activists should now be discussing the California fur ban, including the proposed rabbit exemption that would make the bill into a monopoly giveaway to rabbit farmers, at this YouTube channel:
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Here's the discussion of the bill from today. At around 29:30 they discussed the proposed rabbit fur exemption:
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In today's @bopinion post I lay out a very scary idea: a case for why low interest rates might be holding down productivity growth.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
OK so we think that productivity growth in rich countries has slowed a lot since the recession.

That might seem minor, but over time it's really bad. Eventually it means back to a low-growth, zero-sum world. And that's probably not a good world.
What else has happened in rich countries since the Great Recession?

Interest rates have been very close to the zero lower bound.

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