It’s “game on” for real if this guy has his way.
Jedediah Purdy, a professor at Duke Law School, wrote in POLITICO Magazine that it’s time for “real conflict” over inequality issues like climate change and wealth distribution. Doing away with the political niceties around Independence Day of calls for “compromise” and such, Purdy cited the work of the United Nations and hero-of-the-left Thomas Piketty in urging a pugnacious approach to policy-making.
“Calling for a more divisive politics does not mean embracing polarization for its own sake. It also doesn’t mean denying that, in the end, we really are all in this together,” Purdy wrote. “But we need versions of patriotism and solidarity based in real — which means conflictual [sic] — responses to our big problems. We have some fighting to do.”
Sounds like “economic patriotism” to me.
What would these “responses” look like? Lefty principles, natch.
“It could mean a major-party candidate calling for a modest annual wealth tax, as Piketty has urged. It could mean defending spending on public higher education to raise social mobility and ease the debt crunch for middle-income and poorer graduates. It could mean defending infrastructure investment and public services as benefits for everyone, and opposing spending cuts and privatization for reserving goods to those who can buy them.”
Read the whole thing at POLITICO.
