AOC suffering from the Dunning Kruger Effect?

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If the Justice Democrat's intent is to primary Democrats out of their seats, wouldn't it make sense for the Justice Democrats to stay in the news and make the Democrats look bad and hurt their chances to win?

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I thought the Dems lost in 2016 because, besides completely alienating white voters in Rust Belt states, they had a candidate they really were not enthusiastic about, unlike in 2008 and 2012. “Don’t vote for the other guy cuz he’s bad mmmk” did not work out too well.

Hard for moderates to gain traction as the 1% continues to suck up all of the wealth.

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Moderate and Progressive Democrats almost have equal numbers in the House. Progressives slightly outnumber the moderates: 95 progressives to 90 moderates. There are 24 blue dog democrats (conservatives of the party). The moderates and blue dogs may just team up to pressure a more conservative agenda if the progressives start to threaten their reelection efforts.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/th ... next-year/

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The Dems have two problems with trying to go more centrist.

First , Trump won the election by scooping up some of the main traditional center-left planks (e.g., illegal immigration and job protectionism). Those planks have now been judged racist, xenophobic, fascist, etc., both by Dems and by the MSM (their Ministry of Information). So they can't trot a near-octogenarian out there to stump for stronger borders, orderly immigration, beefing up ICE, US-centric trade arrangements, economic revitalization of Flyover Country, etc., even if that same person was stumping for those same things 6 or 10 years ago. Well, okay, maybe they can, I suppose they could flop back as quickly as they flipped in 2016, but it is going to alienate a chunk of their base they've been riling up for the last two years.

Second is that they welcomed, cheered, and encouraged far-left activism (including that which wasn't entirely peaceful) and I think for this cycle at least they'll have to own it. It was great when it could be giddily spun as a rebuke to Trump/conservatives, but they let it go far enough that the left tail of the Progressive Dems, by virtue of having served as the front line, is in many ways now the face of the party. Maybe they can come up with a way to silence that facet of the party, or convince the media to turn on them; but I think it's likely they overplayed the anti-DT hand and might not be able to get all the horses back in the barn in time to get the doors closed.

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@IlliniDave

The fight will be behind the scenes in committees and close door sessions. The moderates and blue dogs will focus more on centrist/moderate policies that serve their constituencies and vote bipartisan when Republican bills benefit their districts. They are the "silent" majority of the Democratic party within the House. You don't hear much from them but their fingerprints are all over bills and resolutions passed. They may on occasion give lip service to progressive ideals but behind closed doors they know what they need to do to keep their seats within moderate/semi-conservative districts.

The progressive know that these moderates stand in their way of banning farting cows and other illogical ideas not based in sound economic principles or facts. This is why progressives are going to battle against the moderates in their party and trying to flip districts into a more progressive electorate. Neither will work because at the end of the day, most people vote for policies and candidates that will not bankrupt them; the voters are not idealogues interested in anti-zionism and economic suicide.

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Campitor,

I hope you are right about the general direction of the party, although I wonder if the behind-the-scenes legislative machinations will have much effect on their presidential nominee, which is what I was thinking aloud about above. Right now it is hard for me to see DT not getting a second term. The caveat to that statement is I never saw him getting a first term, so my predictive powers are nonexistent. :)

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Is it not really as simple as whether Orange 45 can carry Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan again? AOC making the blue states bluer, how does this impact an out-of-work rural white voter in Florida or North Carolina?

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Here, we have the petulant Baby Boomers, the original “me” generation, who, not being content having turned the greatest creditor nation in history into the greatest debtor nation in history, are throwing temper tantrums in old age and succumbing to Trumpism.

There, we have the Millenials, picking up the torch of me-ness from the Boomers, inheriting a dreadful financial situation, exacerbating it, and, not having a few centuries of accumulated hard work and a couple of world wars’ worth of victory loot to squander, are saying that socialism is the answer.

Interesting that at the cultural peak of Athens, Socrates described an ideal society much more akin to Sparta in Plato’s Republic.

I would much rather be an American and live in America than live in China (even some of America’s most vociferous detractors sneak across borders to live here) but perhaps one must acknowledge that a republic is just a happy interlude between states of autocracy and anarchy.

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Mister Imperceptible wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:46 pm
There, we have the Millenials, picking up the torch of me-ness from the Boomers, inheriting a dreadful financial situation, exacerbating it, and, not having a few centuries of accumulated hard work and a couple of world wars’ worth of victory loot to squander, are saying that socialism is the answer.
Millennials might be 'generation me', but that's mostly because of the helicopter parenting and everyone-gets-a-trophy environment they grew up in. It doesn't surprise me that the youngest of them are also onboard with ideas like UBI and medicare-for-all because they came of age after the biggest financial collapse since the depression. We (people older than them) all complain about how the financial system is rigged to benefit the wealthy disproportionately so why would they trust in that system? Why wouldn't they question it? I don't think they have the answers but I'm not surprised they ask those questions.

Pelosi and Biden tried toning down the more extreme rhetoric today and got a lot of pushback. I don't think the old white people in the party should be dictating what the party does. OTOH, they are the ones with experience and who know how to win in 2020. Democrats will have to decide if they are running on principles or running to win. (I know that sounds callous but it's how the game is currently played.)

The Democratic party could end up as fractured as the Republican party was after 2016. Maybe that's what people like AOC want. I guess that lends more credence to the idea of a fourth turning/party realignment in the coming years.

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jennypenny, I believe you are correct. Ultimately it is about power and what you might call the "old guard" knows that. I'm referring more to attitude than chronological age: traditional politics versus ideology. The old guard gambled on taking down Trump by non-electoral means and apparently will fail in that endeavor. They embraced whomever they needed to embrace to gain legislative power for that end. Time will tell if there is a price to pay for that, but coming out of the gate the field of candidates is trying to navigate left of Bernie. I don't know if they can get away with dictating the nominee this time. It does seem like a more central candidate might help them this cycle, but it also potentially sets them up to be overthrown from within. That's one thing Socialism is good at and specifically designed to do: overthrow the status quo.

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@jennypenny

I am a Millennial :D :twisted:

What I mean to say is that it is no surprise to me that, given most take the path of least resistance and are only skin deep, a republic or representative democracy could quite possibly be just an accident, or short period of decades or centuries in flux between states when the few dominate the many, or there is chaos and absence of central control.

We’re only a few centuries removed from feudalistic society and possibly a shorter period away from an authoritarian technocracy.

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Campitor wrote:
Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:24 am
The anchoring effect works both ways...
Good point. Better to try to avoid extremism. On the other hand it's frustrating that any moderate/reasonable position doesn't get any attention. I'm just glad some politicians are at least trying to push sustainability, even if there are major flaws. Better than nothing?
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Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:59 pm
I am just not following your line of reasoning about how this is a good thing.
I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I thought a lack of experience was preferable to having experience. I certainly don't see why anyone would prefer that in a position that requires any sort of expertise, and I didn't think I wrote anything to that effect. Instead I tried (and evidently failed) to say that it's better to have someone without experience who can learn and adapt quickly, vs. someone without experience who is a slow learner and stuck in their ways. It seems to me AOC is showing improvement over time, but that could be based on a limited sample size of my own observations and over the long term that pattern might not last. I don't know AOC well enough to guess whether she is "suffering from the Dunning Kruger Effect", however I am hopeful that if she is, she can learn her way out of it.

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AOC both benefits and suffers from being a symbol. The question is how she transitions from symbolic representation to literal representation as the latter becomes more important to her political survival. Kind of like JFK was in the process of doing before his brain matter ended up all over his wife's new dress. She has put herself squarely in the New Deal/Great Society tradition which at least gives her ideological identity. How that translates to actual legislation and how it benefits (or not) the Democratic party is beyond my powers of prediction. However, saying the world is going to end in 12 years even if it's purposeful hyperbole did not seem like the most sober minded thing to say. If she's wrong, the statement will come back to haunt her. If she's right, it will make her Presidential victory in 2032 kind of bittersweet.

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Mister Imperceptible wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2019 7:13 pm
What I mean to say is that it is no surprise to me that, given most take the path of least resistance and are only skin deep, a republic or representative democracy could quite possibly be just an accident, or short period of decades or centuries in flux between states when the few dominate the many, or there is chaos and absence of central control.

We’re only a few centuries removed from feudalistic society and possibly a shorter period away from an authoritarian technocracy.
The Roman Republic lasted a few centuries (about 4 and a half).

But to your second point; there was an idea, I believe first voiced by Aristotle or some other Greek, that governments cycle through opposing concepts (paraphrasing):

Benevolent Aristocrats, who naturally crystallize into
Oligarchs, who become so hated they are deposed by enlightened
Democracy, leading eventually to
Rule of the Mobs, which sucks so we get behind a leader, or a
Monarchy, which is eventually overthrown by Aristocrats to restart the cycle.

EDIT


Close! The monarchic heirs inevitably become pieces of shit, and that's when the Aristocrats replace them. It's like 3 categories of government, and within those, the good kind and the bad kind.

the Greek Kyklos.

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Kriegsspiel wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2019 8:32 pm
Benevolent Aristocrats, who naturally crystallize into
Oligarchs, who become so hated they are deposed by enlightened
Democracy, leading eventually to
Rule of the Mobs, which sucks so we get behind a leader, or a
Monarchy, which is eventually overthrown by Aristocrats to restart the cycle.
Seems accurate. So the question is, are we in stage 3 or 4? I guess it depends which way you lean.

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As Kriegsspiell stated it was an "idea" floated by the Greeks. Identifying the first democratic society is parlor game but it's hard to go with Athens when they only allowed non-enslaved men to vote. Same with Rome when some attribute its decline to forced citizenship by those it conquered, diminishing a strong national identity. Some say Iceland but that was the first century AD and well, all I know about Iceland is that it is probably the only country in the world that begins with the letter "I" that I would even remotely consider moving to.

On paper it makes sense. I'm trying to think of a society that actually went through an actual metamorphosis like this. Germany?

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@Jason

Maybe england. Started with a strong monarch; magna carta & etc.; the lords gained more and more power; parliament and the eventual lack of necessary lordship for membership in the house of Lords means that it eventually transitioned into basically a democracy/republic.

They just didn't start at the top.

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