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How Andrew Yang's Robot Apocalypse Can Heal a Divided Nation
Old article but still a good one. This is one of the first ones I read as I started considering switching from Bernie to Yang.
The odds that the Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang will last long in the race are slim, but in the contest to describe whats wrong with America he has become a compelling and distinctive figure. Yangs story begins with the displacement of workers by automation. He blames Donald Trumps 2016 victory on the loss of four million manufacturing jobs in swing states. The loss of jobs, he emphasizes, has not been limited to manufacturing. Technology has taken revenue from malls, from newspapers, from taxi-drivers. For Yang, our countrys divisions are a purely economic story, with other problemsnastiness, racism, misogyny, bad ideascaused in part by the decline in reasoning that sets in when you cant pay your bills. Yang talks about the rise in suicide, the rise in drug overdoses, the increase in the numbers of people claiming disability benefits. What he describes is a loss of meaning on a massive scale.
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Yang has several mottos. Theres Humanity First. Theres Not left, not right, its forward. He is a centrist, not as Kamala Harris or Joe Biden are centrists, by not diverging too far from the status quo, but in that he presents his policy proposals in language that disorients voters from the known ideological maps of their political platforms. His technocratic populism attracts podcast listeners, tech-industry venture capitalists, libertarians, Trump supporters, proud Asian-Americans, and white men who feel they have been unfairly blamed for the perpetuation of inequality.
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The volunteers at the phone-banking event were positive, friendly, and motivated, exemplars of the attitude thats encouraged by the campaign. They listened carefully as Shaun Looney, an Army veteran and recent business-school graduate from Buffalo, trained them on software that offered the callers scripted cues. Yangs conciliatory approach might feel to some like too much of a surrender. But I could see how the campaign presented a respite from the deeply depressing divisions around us.
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Brian Leff, a twenty-two-year-old political-science student at New York University, who is from Westchester County, told me that he liked that Yang focusses so much more on solutions than ideology. He voted for Gary Johnson, the libertarian candidate, in the 2016 elections. Kyle Barrett, who is twenty-nine and works at a communications consultancy in Manhattan, said that with Yangs U.B.I. proposal he and his wife would be able to pay off their student loans in two years. Tami Joy Schlichter, thirty-seven, is the head volunteer for the campaign in New York City. An entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in mathematical neuroscience, she said that Yang was the only candidate addressing what she saw as the most urgent issue: the displacement of workers to automation.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-andrew-yangs-robot-apocalypse-can-heal-a-divided-nation
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Yang has several mottos. Theres Humanity First. Theres Not left, not right, its forward. He is a centrist, not as Kamala Harris or Joe Biden are centrists, by not diverging too far from the status quo, but in that he presents his policy proposals in language that disorients voters from the known ideological maps of their political platforms. His technocratic populism attracts podcast listeners, tech-industry venture capitalists, libertarians, Trump supporters, proud Asian-Americans, and white men who feel they have been unfairly blamed for the perpetuation of inequality.
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The volunteers at the phone-banking event were positive, friendly, and motivated, exemplars of the attitude thats encouraged by the campaign. They listened carefully as Shaun Looney, an Army veteran and recent business-school graduate from Buffalo, trained them on software that offered the callers scripted cues. Yangs conciliatory approach might feel to some like too much of a surrender. But I could see how the campaign presented a respite from the deeply depressing divisions around us.
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Brian Leff, a twenty-two-year-old political-science student at New York University, who is from Westchester County, told me that he liked that Yang focusses so much more on solutions than ideology. He voted for Gary Johnson, the libertarian candidate, in the 2016 elections. Kyle Barrett, who is twenty-nine and works at a communications consultancy in Manhattan, said that with Yangs U.B.I. proposal he and his wife would be able to pay off their student loans in two years. Tami Joy Schlichter, thirty-seven, is the head volunteer for the campaign in New York City. An entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in mathematical neuroscience, she said that Yang was the only candidate addressing what she saw as the most urgent issue: the displacement of workers to automation.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-andrew-yangs-robot-apocalypse-can-heal-a-divided-nation
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How Andrew Yang's Robot Apocalypse Can Heal a Divided Nation (Original Post)
redqueen
Nov 2019
OP
Read your OP. Bernie IS Sanders. The excerpt should read Bernie to Yang, not "Bernie
tblue37
Nov 2019
#3
I know...did you not see the rolling smiley face where I'm laughing about it?? But thanks for
UniteFightBack
Nov 2019
#7
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)1. Switching from Bernie to Sanders?? You ain't fooling nobody...
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)2. Lots of Yang's supporters are former Berners
what's your point?
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
tblue37
(65,477 posts)3. Read your OP. Bernie IS Sanders. The excerpt should read Bernie to Yang, not "Bernie
to Sanders" as it does.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)5. There I fixed it.
Glad it was pretty obvious what I meant to say.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
tblue37
(65,477 posts)6. I thought it was, but maybe not to everyone. nt
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)8. Why are you doing that??? You're ruining my joke now!!!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)9. I didn't get the joke
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)10. The joke is..............
that you aren't actually switching!!!
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull a fast one on me by saying you are switching from Bernie to Sanders *wink wink*.
It was very obvious you meant to say Yang so I thought I would have a little fun with that.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)11. Oh right...
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)12. Oh good I'm glad you got it...
I was getting worried that maybe this joke does not make sense to anyone except me!!!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MustLoveBeagles
(11,629 posts)4. They meant Yang not Sanders
It's just a typo. It happens.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)7. I know...did you not see the rolling smiley face where I'm laughing about it?? But thanks for
breaking that down for me.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MustLoveBeagles
(11,629 posts)13. LOL
No problem. Sorry I didn't get the joke right away. I haven't had my coffee today.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)14. K&R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided