“On the day that Kosinski published these findings, he received two phone calls. The threat of a lawsuit and a job offer. Both from Facebook.” LOL
Very interesting read, thanks for sharing. The bottom line for me, whether it’s right or wrong I guess I’m not sure, but my gut says that Trump tapped into what average americans feel is important which turned out to be different than what the mainstream press was telling them.
As a libertarian who has no love for Donald, but also no love for Hillary, I think the whole show is so fascinating because the hypocrisy is so thick on both sides. The antiwar folks that were losing their mind over Bush disappeared under Obama, the folks losing their mind over executive orders under Obama have disappeared under Trump, same with nominations and confirmations, etc etc.
One thing I will be watching very carefully is looking for actual evidence, let me say that again, ACTUAL EVIDENCE that the things folks are losing their mind about actually happen, or if the evidence points in another direction. Devos is a prime example. My wife is a teacher, so I get to hear first hand how the teachers unions and all the public school bureaurcracy are whipped up into a frenzy. Well, if she does actually advance the cause of school choice, I will be looking for evidence, real evidence of what results.
Because I know for a fact that public education is flawed, my wife who lives in the belly of the beast, talks about it every day. If government provided telephones, rich people would still be carrying around bag phones, and poor people would still be on land lines if at all. Education could most likely be the same way, if it was pay to play, yes wealthy people would get the best education, but guess what, poor people would get better education than they do today. I believe you have a choice, you can choose equality, in which case everyone will get the same equal s**t, or you can introduce market forces and watch the quality that everyone recieves improve, accepting that some might benefit more. Of course when you ask yourself the simple question “how many washington politicians have their kids in public school?” then you quickly realize that it’s not equality you are getting, it’s socialism.
To those of you that say we can have high quality public education, all I can say is that we spend more per pupil today than we ever have. Meanwhile test scores are stagnant and the rest of the world is passing us by. This isn’t conjecture, its fact, and it is just natural order of things. It happens everywhere with everything, but people on both sides of the isle keep doubling and tripling down on more and more government to “fix” the problem. Ultimately, the vast majority of people in their gut know its wrong, and Trump tapped into that, even though he has not yet convinced me he is any different. BUT I will say that a number of his nominees give me hope. AND I will be looking for evidence to the contrary as well, like the pollution, workplace tragedies, etc as proof that cutting back on government created more problems than it resolved. But don’t look for me to cherry pick, because I won’t. I will look for evidence, not hyperbole. If there is a spill or an explosion, I won’t be jumping to any conclusions, I will be looking to see if the number of spills, or volume of spills went up, etc. Because anyone can pick a one-off and ralley around it, both sides do it incessently, let no crisis go to waste, right. F**k that, I’ll be looking at the big picture.
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