Very glad to see Michael Baharaeen back with a Substack. I've long appreciated Michael's analyses of polls and surveys, his balanced tone, and his willingness to engage respectfully with those who sometimes disagree (as I sometimes do). In this case, I appreciated particularly the specific examples he notes related to the various excesses he lays out.
Here's one that hit close to home, as I grew up in the Chicago area and the Art Institute was (and is) a treasure that I visited as often as I could.
I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday and, as is always the case, I was grateful for all the people who give their time, without pay, to us all, and with deep knowledge and dedication. When I walk in our local parks, I'm grateful for all those out in their sun hats, garden gloves, and knee protectors, weeding and otherwise beautifying our surroundings.
In almost all cases (not every one, to be sure, but most), the people doing this work are older white women.
One older white woman who gave freely of her time out of love for nature was, in fact, my Mom, who docented at a nature site near where she lived until she couldn't do the walking anymore. (She's 98 now.)
What a disgrace to dishonor these women in any way. Shame on the Art Institute.
AOC doesn't think Woke 1 was crazy, she thinks saying that will help her odds at winning the presidency. After Joe "Do I look woke to you?" Biden ran as a moderate in 2020 only to immediately hand the keys over to the most far Left administration in US history, anyone paying attention knows the Dem playbook is to hope people just forget everything they said before running for office.
The first year after this year's elections will be extremely telling. In WI, Crowley won because most Dems (barely) are sane enough to know Hong was crazy. I like Crowley well enough on paper, but if he wins I'll be very nervous that it will be Biden all over again at the state level: present as moderate, the pedal to the metal crazy once in office.
I wouldn't necessarily think she doesn't believe what she is saying now - she was elected at 28 after not really working in progressive politics. Wasn't DSA until soon before that. Was obviously getting tons of positive encouragement for participating in Peak Woke in her amazingly quick rise to fame. That must have been a wild ride for her. And she's now 36.
Sure, people can evolve and mature. She could demonstrate that by saying what exactly she found crazy about it. What was she wrong about? Which stances has she demonstratably changed on? I well remember 2020, and laughing and handwaving it off with a single sentence isn't enough for me to credit someone as having matured.
Very glad to see Michael Baharaeen back with a Substack. I've long appreciated Michael's analyses of polls and surveys, his balanced tone, and his willingness to engage respectfully with those who sometimes disagree (as I sometimes do). In this case, I appreciated particularly the specific examples he notes related to the various excesses he lays out.
Here's one that hit close to home, as I grew up in the Chicago area and the Art Institute was (and is) a treasure that I visited as often as I could.
I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art yesterday and, as is always the case, I was grateful for all the people who give their time, without pay, to us all, and with deep knowledge and dedication. When I walk in our local parks, I'm grateful for all those out in their sun hats, garden gloves, and knee protectors, weeding and otherwise beautifying our surroundings.
In almost all cases (not every one, to be sure, but most), the people doing this work are older white women.
One older white woman who gave freely of her time out of love for nature was, in fact, my Mom, who docented at a nature site near where she lived until she couldn't do the walking anymore. (She's 98 now.)
What a disgrace to dishonor these women in any way. Shame on the Art Institute.
AOC doesn't think Woke 1 was crazy, she thinks saying that will help her odds at winning the presidency. After Joe "Do I look woke to you?" Biden ran as a moderate in 2020 only to immediately hand the keys over to the most far Left administration in US history, anyone paying attention knows the Dem playbook is to hope people just forget everything they said before running for office.
The first year after this year's elections will be extremely telling. In WI, Crowley won because most Dems (barely) are sane enough to know Hong was crazy. I like Crowley well enough on paper, but if he wins I'll be very nervous that it will be Biden all over again at the state level: present as moderate, the pedal to the metal crazy once in office.
I wouldn't necessarily think she doesn't believe what she is saying now - she was elected at 28 after not really working in progressive politics. Wasn't DSA until soon before that. Was obviously getting tons of positive encouragement for participating in Peak Woke in her amazingly quick rise to fame. That must have been a wild ride for her. And she's now 36.
Sure, people can evolve and mature. She could demonstrate that by saying what exactly she found crazy about it. What was she wrong about? Which stances has she demonstratably changed on? I well remember 2020, and laughing and handwaving it off with a single sentence isn't enough for me to credit someone as having matured.