Maybe the lack of leftist populism is that many of the left's ideas just are not that popular. When enacting things by force is your MO, that's not popularity at work. These people speak in platitudes that have no real-world foundation. We're asked to believe that a govt bureaucracy that can barely manage the basics - roads, public safety, schools - is magically equipped to tackle health care or climate. By what logic? You don't take the kid who is failing basic math and toss him into the calculus class.
It's so easy, almost mindless, to sit in the comfort of a six-figure taxpayer salary and decree that all businesses must pay whatever "a living wage" is deemed to be on this day. Only someone who is abjectly clueless about what goes into a business can make such a blanket statement with a straight face, and never mind the pretense that such a move would occur in a vacuum. It's like progressive ideas are based on emotion rather than logic or reason.
Maybe the lack of leftist populism is that many of the left's ideas just are not that popular. When enacting things by force is your MO, that's not popularity at work. These people speak in platitudes that have no real-world foundation. We're asked to believe that a govt bureaucracy that can barely manage the basics - roads, public safety, schools - is magically equipped to tackle health care or climate. By what logic? You don't take the kid who is failing basic math and toss him into the calculus class.
It's so easy, almost mindless, to sit in the comfort of a six-figure taxpayer salary and decree that all businesses must pay whatever "a living wage" is deemed to be on this day. Only someone who is abjectly clueless about what goes into a business can make such a blanket statement with a straight face, and never mind the pretense that such a move would occur in a vacuum. It's like progressive ideas are based on emotion rather than logic or reason.