Editing Blog/2024-09-14/Politics (section)

== Forward Looking ==

The most striking thing about all this is that even though I have a very personal interest in the Democrats winning:

# They will be good about green cards
# They don't hate foreigners inherently

It seems like they're the wrong choice. It's a party that's inward-looking and focused very hard on accelerating the [[The Decline of Empire|Decline of Empire]], opposing things because the people say the wrong things, espousing populism that will restrict US prosperity, and generally attempting to mimic the things that have made Europe a moribund economy where people struggle to live prosperously.

It's far too obvious that juicing student loans is a giveaway to universities, that juicing homeowner purchases is a giveaway to landowners, that preventing progress doesn't stop the world from progressing. Only you.

The real tragedy is that there is a path to prosperity here, and the same people who bemoan the lack of it oppose growth. [[wikipedia:Trump fake electors plot|Donald Trump has done some insane stuff, and would be opposed to letting go of power, which is the biggest problem of all]] which makes it really painful to risk this because we risk everything if we won't allow peaceful transition of power. On the balance, I think he can't kill America in 4 y of power, so I think it's worth the crack.