I hope Shellenberger wins. I suspect he is California's last hope.
He sums up the overall problem--not just with California politicians, but with political leaders all over the U.S--very astutely: "100-percent certain about what they couldn’t know, and weirdly unsure about how to fix things that could be fixed."
What could be the downside to electing anyone besides Newsom? How could anyone do worse? I listened to Shellenberger's interview with Rogan. I'm what many on the left would now call a red-pilled right-wing conspiracy theorist (i.e. I don't mindlessly accept everything the mainstream media preaches about Covid and find myself increasingly disenchanted with the Dem party) and I found his interview refreshing. Finally, like it used to be all of ten years ago, here was a liberal politician who I disagreed with on many of his suggested policies but who I found I can respect and, if elected, find many areas of agreement with.
Apparently, like Bari, I find Shellenberger, compelling, even if he's a bit odd. He does seem to have the zealotry of the convert but in his own, chill, slightly distracted way. His Zen character, replete with reticence, is a nice relief from the cocksure, braying idiots of both parties that we incessantly elect and then instantly regret having voted for. Whether the senile imbecile, Biden, who embarrasses himself - and us - on a daily basis, to the aged relics who foul our Senate chamber, to braying jackasses such as Schumer, Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham, down to the local rent seekers and trough feeders, what is is about politics that attracts the worst sort? Shellenberger seems a welcome antidote. A man to whom facts, and results, seem to matter most. California, now in so much trouble because it was really a paradise, can be saved. But it won't be easy. For those of us non-Californians who desperately love the state, Shellenberger seems a ray of much needed hope. Good luck to him.
There is no nice way of saying but Californians have to stop voting for Democrats. For decades state has been run by Democratic party on almost every level. Up to early 2000 that might have worked, but now, it is clearly not working. Cities are falling apart, homeless in every park, junkies robing stores in broad daylight with out any fear of law.
Ironic person might say, well California is becoming that what it was up to 1900, Wild West, where outlaws roam free and only small pockets of law hold out.
But in reality, no other state shows how insane woke/progressive polices can destroy a state. This wouldn't be a problem if California transplants weren't escaping in drows to other well run states and bringing their voting habits that they escaped from. I mean, are you blind, you voted for Democrats for 50 years, they in turn have ruined the state to the extent that it is becoming unlivable, and you still want to vote for same ideas?
Nothing better epitomizes decline of California as decline of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Both are looking more and more to some cities in third world where rich elite lives in gated communities while rest of the city is slum where no laws apply.
But worst is, that majority of Californians, would rather vote blue and be forced to jump over needles on streets and human excrement, than vote Republican and have clean and safe cites.
Sometime I think, that California is beyond saving. I just hope, that in case of this decline, the old saying doesn't come true "As California Goes, so Goes the Nation"
His epiphany about the "double-game" is spot-on. I've worked in environmental policy for 30 years, and the goal posts keep getting moved, often at the behest of NGOs and their allies in Administrations and the U.S. EPA. The NGOs downplay or outright ignore the actual progress that has been made over the past 50 years and instead have us chasing smaller and smaller amounts of pollution, even in the face of evidence that there is little actual, if any, net benefit once everything gets factored in. My colleagues and I have long thought that a major reason for all of this was to keep the donation pipeline flowing (though I don't doubt the sincerity, even if misguided, of some in their ranks). And, he's right about nuclear, too. One reason I don't think the climate debate is truly serious, and is more about fundraising and being anti-capitalist, is the rejection of nuclear energy. I encourage folks to read Apocalypse Never.
Silicon Valley has everyone right where they want them: scared and at home and online. It’s why they made billions during the pandemic and why they never want it to end. Much better to preach bullshit online then actually fix real problems lurking on the street. I hope Shellenberger wins.
Pretty unnecessary description of the Republican crowd in your intro. Those yucky “Americans”. 20-30 years ago I said that if Al Gore came out for nuclear power it would scare the shit out of me because it meant they really believed in the climate apocalypse/hoax. Agree that the housing crisis is mostly a drug/mental health crisis. I believe life starts at conception, but can claim no certainty on this. What I do know is 1. Life starts at some point. 2. You cannot take innocent life. 3. Therefore you should err on the side of caution
So black woman who prattles on about systemic racism is hoping to win among conservatives in PA -- Kathy Barnette.
And a pro-choice tree-hugger from Berkeley is looking to CA conservatives for a win -- Michael Shellenberger.
What a weird year.
I'm a Republican and there's a good chance I'm going to vote for this guy (CA is an open primary state) just out of desperation. GOP standard bearer Brian Dahle may be a very nice man, but he ain't gonna win. However coming across as a conservative Democrat is easy in a land populated by total Left-wing nutcases (those are the officeholders, not the voters.)
The question isn't "can Michael get the vote of a Republican desperate for sanity?" The question is "can Michael get the vote of the people who elect the Left wing loonies?" That's considerably less certain. His ballot designation may help: "Homelessness Policy Advocate"
In NOLA for Jazzfest in early May, I ran into a guy from SF. We got to talking about the homeless problem. “It’s very complicated,” he kept saying. I kept saying, “You should read San Fransicko. The progressives have completely messed up the homeless problem.” He: “I don’t have to read anything. I live it every day.” That’s the kind of closed-minded progressiveness that Shellenberger needs to, but sadly won’t, persuade.
“by the time I got to ‘San Fransicko,’ I knew there was a double-game being played.” In other words, he knew there was a chasm between what progressive activists said they wanted and what they actually wanted. They claimed to want to end homelessness, just as the environmentalists had claimed to want to combat climate change. But that wasn’t true. Really, they wanted the fight, the feeling of moral superiority and, of course, the cash for their NGOs."
WOW!! so well said!!
You can apply this to every Progressive and Woke Agenda
The author is arrogantly detached from Normal Americans who identify as conservative/republicans, but good piece.
“Republican crowd the sirloin it craves.” Sirloin? Conservatives value filet’s, buddy… Especially venison tenderloins.
“Republicans tried to recall Newsom and got clobbered” Right… with full ballot harvesting and other voter fraud. Trump garnered more republican votes in CA than any other republican in state history.
This conservative would vote for Shellenberger in a heartbeat precisely because he has actually lived among the Left and knows exactly what and who they are: dangerous. Very dangerous. “San Fransicko” is precisely what you get with Leftists: death, misery, and lawlessness. David Horowitz of the Freedom Center or David Mehmet are the greatest leaders of the red-pilled movement. Study them.
Ugh--more vacuous condescension from Peter Savodnick, a legend in his own mind. Bari, please stop...
As for Shellenberger, he's just a typical upper-middle-class Lefty, running in a one-party state. Yes, he's a little more human than the evil droid, but ultimately, any government he might form would be one that fundamentally distrusts human agency, but that miraculously thinks the same humans can do no wrong if the right few are allowed to run the show.
Honestly, who actually "cares" about California? I was just in San Francisco (still one of my favorite places), and it is what it is, warts and all. I kept hoping to see some actual sidewalk shitting, but the people in the tents must've been sleeping in. Want an authentically scary place? Try walking around Memphis...
Shellenberger got it right: Progressives don't want to end homelessness or save the enviornment...they want to maintain their moral high-ground and more importantly, keep the money flowing to their NGOs! Just like Cancer and Disbetes: no cures but making billions on treatments!
I've seen Shellenberger on a couple of different podcasts and he appears sensible and balanced, the antithesis of Newsome and similar people. It will be interesting to see how voters in California react. Although that state is the national petri dish, it is also a bellwether of tastes and trends.
He’s for school choice. The Teachers Unions will go scorched earth on him. The rest of the unions will pile in behind them. With the unions comes the rest of the Dem apparatus and administrative state. He’s a David facing a political Goliath. Add to that, the recall shows that Californians actually like Newsom and his policies.
History has shown us that California spawns trends, both good and bad, that sweep across the country. Folks like Shellenberger could be the savior of California, and lead to keeping the rest of the country from going down the drain. And this piece is yet another reason why Common Sense has become such an important part of my day.
I hope Shellenberger wins. I suspect he is California's last hope.
He sums up the overall problem--not just with California politicians, but with political leaders all over the U.S--very astutely: "100-percent certain about what they couldn’t know, and weirdly unsure about how to fix things that could be fixed."
What could be the downside to electing anyone besides Newsom? How could anyone do worse? I listened to Shellenberger's interview with Rogan. I'm what many on the left would now call a red-pilled right-wing conspiracy theorist (i.e. I don't mindlessly accept everything the mainstream media preaches about Covid and find myself increasingly disenchanted with the Dem party) and I found his interview refreshing. Finally, like it used to be all of ten years ago, here was a liberal politician who I disagreed with on many of his suggested policies but who I found I can respect and, if elected, find many areas of agreement with.
Apparently, like Bari, I find Shellenberger, compelling, even if he's a bit odd. He does seem to have the zealotry of the convert but in his own, chill, slightly distracted way. His Zen character, replete with reticence, is a nice relief from the cocksure, braying idiots of both parties that we incessantly elect and then instantly regret having voted for. Whether the senile imbecile, Biden, who embarrasses himself - and us - on a daily basis, to the aged relics who foul our Senate chamber, to braying jackasses such as Schumer, Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham, down to the local rent seekers and trough feeders, what is is about politics that attracts the worst sort? Shellenberger seems a welcome antidote. A man to whom facts, and results, seem to matter most. California, now in so much trouble because it was really a paradise, can be saved. But it won't be easy. For those of us non-Californians who desperately love the state, Shellenberger seems a ray of much needed hope. Good luck to him.
There is no nice way of saying but Californians have to stop voting for Democrats. For decades state has been run by Democratic party on almost every level. Up to early 2000 that might have worked, but now, it is clearly not working. Cities are falling apart, homeless in every park, junkies robing stores in broad daylight with out any fear of law.
Ironic person might say, well California is becoming that what it was up to 1900, Wild West, where outlaws roam free and only small pockets of law hold out.
But in reality, no other state shows how insane woke/progressive polices can destroy a state. This wouldn't be a problem if California transplants weren't escaping in drows to other well run states and bringing their voting habits that they escaped from. I mean, are you blind, you voted for Democrats for 50 years, they in turn have ruined the state to the extent that it is becoming unlivable, and you still want to vote for same ideas?
Nothing better epitomizes decline of California as decline of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Both are looking more and more to some cities in third world where rich elite lives in gated communities while rest of the city is slum where no laws apply.
But worst is, that majority of Californians, would rather vote blue and be forced to jump over needles on streets and human excrement, than vote Republican and have clean and safe cites.
Sometime I think, that California is beyond saving. I just hope, that in case of this decline, the old saying doesn't come true "As California Goes, so Goes the Nation"
His epiphany about the "double-game" is spot-on. I've worked in environmental policy for 30 years, and the goal posts keep getting moved, often at the behest of NGOs and their allies in Administrations and the U.S. EPA. The NGOs downplay or outright ignore the actual progress that has been made over the past 50 years and instead have us chasing smaller and smaller amounts of pollution, even in the face of evidence that there is little actual, if any, net benefit once everything gets factored in. My colleagues and I have long thought that a major reason for all of this was to keep the donation pipeline flowing (though I don't doubt the sincerity, even if misguided, of some in their ranks). And, he's right about nuclear, too. One reason I don't think the climate debate is truly serious, and is more about fundraising and being anti-capitalist, is the rejection of nuclear energy. I encourage folks to read Apocalypse Never.
Silicon Valley has everyone right where they want them: scared and at home and online. It’s why they made billions during the pandemic and why they never want it to end. Much better to preach bullshit online then actually fix real problems lurking on the street. I hope Shellenberger wins.
Pretty unnecessary description of the Republican crowd in your intro. Those yucky “Americans”. 20-30 years ago I said that if Al Gore came out for nuclear power it would scare the shit out of me because it meant they really believed in the climate apocalypse/hoax. Agree that the housing crisis is mostly a drug/mental health crisis. I believe life starts at conception, but can claim no certainty on this. What I do know is 1. Life starts at some point. 2. You cannot take innocent life. 3. Therefore you should err on the side of caution
So black woman who prattles on about systemic racism is hoping to win among conservatives in PA -- Kathy Barnette.
And a pro-choice tree-hugger from Berkeley is looking to CA conservatives for a win -- Michael Shellenberger.
What a weird year.
I'm a Republican and there's a good chance I'm going to vote for this guy (CA is an open primary state) just out of desperation. GOP standard bearer Brian Dahle may be a very nice man, but he ain't gonna win. However coming across as a conservative Democrat is easy in a land populated by total Left-wing nutcases (those are the officeholders, not the voters.)
The question isn't "can Michael get the vote of a Republican desperate for sanity?" The question is "can Michael get the vote of the people who elect the Left wing loonies?" That's considerably less certain. His ballot designation may help: "Homelessness Policy Advocate"
In NOLA for Jazzfest in early May, I ran into a guy from SF. We got to talking about the homeless problem. “It’s very complicated,” he kept saying. I kept saying, “You should read San Fransicko. The progressives have completely messed up the homeless problem.” He: “I don’t have to read anything. I live it every day.” That’s the kind of closed-minded progressiveness that Shellenberger needs to, but sadly won’t, persuade.
“by the time I got to ‘San Fransicko,’ I knew there was a double-game being played.” In other words, he knew there was a chasm between what progressive activists said they wanted and what they actually wanted. They claimed to want to end homelessness, just as the environmentalists had claimed to want to combat climate change. But that wasn’t true. Really, they wanted the fight, the feeling of moral superiority and, of course, the cash for their NGOs."
WOW!! so well said!!
You can apply this to every Progressive and Woke Agenda
The author is arrogantly detached from Normal Americans who identify as conservative/republicans, but good piece.
“Republican crowd the sirloin it craves.” Sirloin? Conservatives value filet’s, buddy… Especially venison tenderloins.
“Republicans tried to recall Newsom and got clobbered” Right… with full ballot harvesting and other voter fraud. Trump garnered more republican votes in CA than any other republican in state history.
This conservative would vote for Shellenberger in a heartbeat precisely because he has actually lived among the Left and knows exactly what and who they are: dangerous. Very dangerous. “San Fransicko” is precisely what you get with Leftists: death, misery, and lawlessness. David Horowitz of the Freedom Center or David Mehmet are the greatest leaders of the red-pilled movement. Study them.
Ugh--more vacuous condescension from Peter Savodnick, a legend in his own mind. Bari, please stop...
As for Shellenberger, he's just a typical upper-middle-class Lefty, running in a one-party state. Yes, he's a little more human than the evil droid, but ultimately, any government he might form would be one that fundamentally distrusts human agency, but that miraculously thinks the same humans can do no wrong if the right few are allowed to run the show.
Honestly, who actually "cares" about California? I was just in San Francisco (still one of my favorite places), and it is what it is, warts and all. I kept hoping to see some actual sidewalk shitting, but the people in the tents must've been sleeping in. Want an authentically scary place? Try walking around Memphis...
Shellenberger got it right: Progressives don't want to end homelessness or save the enviornment...they want to maintain their moral high-ground and more importantly, keep the money flowing to their NGOs! Just like Cancer and Disbetes: no cures but making billions on treatments!
I've seen Shellenberger on a couple of different podcasts and he appears sensible and balanced, the antithesis of Newsome and similar people. It will be interesting to see how voters in California react. Although that state is the national petri dish, it is also a bellwether of tastes and trends.
He’s for school choice. The Teachers Unions will go scorched earth on him. The rest of the unions will pile in behind them. With the unions comes the rest of the Dem apparatus and administrative state. He’s a David facing a political Goliath. Add to that, the recall shows that Californians actually like Newsom and his policies.
History has shown us that California spawns trends, both good and bad, that sweep across the country. Folks like Shellenberger could be the savior of California, and lead to keeping the rest of the country from going down the drain. And this piece is yet another reason why Common Sense has become such an important part of my day.