{"id":61117,"date":"2016-11-29T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61117"},"modified":"2016-11-29T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T13:45:32","slug":"whats-the-matter-with-paul-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61117","title":{"rendered":"What’s The Matter With Paul Krugman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a member of the “White Working Class”. \u00a0I worked pretty hard to\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>be part of it, earlier in my life. \u00a0For better or worse, I’m a service-economy guy.<\/p>\n

Paul Krugman new yhork times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats have to figure out why the white working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests, not pretend that a bit more populism would solve the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a word to the wise, Paul Krugman – but since it’s you, I’ll have to explain it.<\/p>\n

Being told what “one’s best interests” are is a good enough reason by itself.<\/p>\n

Would Paul Krugman tell black people, or Native Americans, or women, what’s “in their best interests?” \u00a0That would be racist, sexist and mansplaining.<\/p>\n

It’s no different when you Bluesplain to people you don’t know, have never met, will never meet, and whose lives would kill you dead in half an hour what “their best interests” are. \u00a0There’s no cutesy PC social-justice-academy term for it – but it’s the same thing.<\/p>\n

And that’s when the Bluesplaining comes from someone who’s actually got a point – which Paul Krugman does not. \u00a0How do we know this?<\/p>\n

Because he wrote this…:<\/p>\n

Any claim that changed policy positions will win elections assumes that the public will hear about those positions. How is that supposed to happen, when most of the news media simply refuse to cover policy substance? Remember, over the course of the 2016 campaign, the three network news shows devoted a total of 35 minutes combined to policy issues \u2014 all policy issues. Meanwhile, they devoted 125 minutes to Mrs. Clinton\u2019s emails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. \u00a0The press was\u00a0hard\u00a0<\/em>on Hillary.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah. \u00a0And…:<\/p>\n

Beyond this, the fact is that Democrats have already been pursuing policies that are much better for the white working class than anything the other party has to offer. Yet this has brought no political reward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, they do not – and yes, the reward has been bestowed.<\/p>\n

Krugman is just too much of a clown to know it.<\/p>\n

At least one professor got the message and got some useful takeaways<\/a> from the complete failure of the “academic-industrial complex” for which Krugman is a poster child:<\/p>\n

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First, we must stop being insufferable know-it-alls. As scribes and scholars, we have expertise in a particular beat or field, but that doesn\u2019t make us qualified to determine which candidate is best to lead 320 million Americans, each of whom has many and varied needs. Nor is it our job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

God knows it’ll never be Krugman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not a member of the “White Working Class”. \u00a0I worked pretty hard to\u00a0not\u00a0be part of it, earlier in my life. \u00a0For better or worse, I’m a service-economy guy. Paul Krugman new yhork times. Democrats have to figure out why the white working class just voted overwhelmingly against its own economic interests, not pretend that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61180,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61117\/revisions\/61180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}