This week, I share a few of my very minor, totally reasonable pet peeves, including one that I've recently come to discover occurs more because of other people's ignorance rather than they're trying to piss me off. And that got me thinking about how we all should test our beliefs and assumptions and make sure they're well founded, and also closely interrogate the politicians we support for the same reasons. And when I did that, I found that for my entire life, Democratic politicians have mostly been trying to convince us to accept "pizzaburgers," which they think will satisfy everyone just enough, but instead saticycleisfy nobody at all.
Its time for Democratic voters to finally stand up and demand, "NO MORE PIZZABURGERS!"
Mentioned this week:
Institute for Policy Studies: Executive Excess 2024
Charlie Pierce: Why Stock Buybacks Used to Be Illegal
Carnegie Endowment: Political Engagement = MORE Misperception
Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow: Pizzaburgers
Steven Kinzer: All the Shah's Men(NYT Review)
Tricycle: Rebecca Solnit on Changing the Climate Change Story
