NBC Sets Lineup For First Democratic Debates

June 14, 2019 Hunter Wallace 2020 Election, Alt-Punditry, Politics, Populists, Progressives 12

Axios:

“NBC on Friday set the lineups for the first round of the 2020 Democratic debates that will take place on June 26 and 27 in Miami …

June 26: Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, and Elizabeth Warren

June 27: Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, and Andrew Yang”

It has been a quiet few weeks.

Lately, I haven’t posted much Yang news because I have been waiting for the debates, editing some old posts in the archives and reading and reviewing a stack of books about Southern history.

The big day is going to be June 27th. That’s the day that Andrew Yang will share the stage of the first Democratic debate with Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. Yang is going to be in the thick of the debate with the leading Democratic candidates.

I predict that Yang will do well and have a breakout moment in that debate. We shall soon see whether this is going to go anywhere. We’re going to know if Joe Biden is as strong a candidate as the polling suggests and whether Yang’s candidacy has legs long before the first primaries.

I’m still a strong supporter. I disagree with Yang on the social issues, but I strongly agree with him on economics. After the last two and half years, I don’t have any confidence in Blompf and the GOP to handle the social issues. I’m also viscerally opposed to spending the next four years enduring Blompf’s Twitter feed while he flails around as president. I would much rather shoot for something transformative like Universal Basic Income and confronting the challenge of automation.

The way that I look at this after two years of Blompf is that the polarization has gone too far under the Boomer generation and nothing will be accomplished in Washington until we can first accomplish a few big things that puts everyone in a much better mood. The place to start is by addressing the issues where there is already the biggest consensus like infrastructure and taxes.

Dealing with the rise of robots, automation and artificial intelligence is also the perfect icebreaker to start moving beyond this era of polarized Boomer politics because the challenge is real and there are no strong partisan feelings about the subject. It is also clear that this transformation of the economy is going to be one of the major challenges of the Gen X’er, Millennial and Zoomer generations.

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12 Comments

  2. A veritable Who’s Who of candidates that no MI UAW worker or KS housewife or WV coal miner is going to vote for.

  3. It’s too bad a real Democrat isn’t there to tell this motley bunch of fags and harpies whats what, like James K Vardaman or Theodore Bilbo, or the late great William Jennings Bryan.

  4. It’s time that those born and raised at the end of the Twentieth and beginning of the Twentyfirst Centuries take over.

    It’s past time for the Cold War and WWII to be laid to rest.

    When the Soviet Union collapsed, I knew that the Twentieth Century had come to an end.

  5. What is this? Honestly I’m flummoxed by your post here. Who gives a shit about “zoomers”? I couldn’t care less, they’re majority-minority and they hate you Hunter. Not dislike but hate. You and I owe them nothing.

    Only 1 issue matters and we all know what it is. Who cares about automation and robots ?

    • I disagree.

      If there is one lesson that I have derived from spending so much time studying our history, it is the determinative impact of technological change:

      – The cotton gin made the Cotton Kingdom possible

      – The mechanical cotton picker abolished sharecropping

      – The air conditioner and the bulldozer have completely transformed the South

      Technology cannot be separated from demographics. The whole reason so many blacks ended up here in the Black Belt and why they have been leaving since World War I is due to technological change and the impact it has had on the economy.

      Who cares about automation and robots? Well, I care because there are more blacks in Chicago now than Mississippi because of the mechanization of agriculture. We’re about to go through a technological change even bigger than that one and it will have massive unforseen consequences.

      Racial demographics and culture are downstream of technology.

      • Absolutely wrong. According to the most recent census numbers, the city of Chicago has a population of 2,695,598 people, with 887,608 being niggers. The state of Mississippi presently has a population of 2,992,333 people, with 1,107,163 being niggers. Mississippi has more niggers both literally and proportionally.

        • According to the 2010 Census, there are 9,729,825 people in the Chicago Metro Area and 16.7% of them are black, which is 1,624,880 blacks. There were 2,967,297 people in Mississippi of whom 1,098,385 are black.

          • More importantly, Wang, you are comparing a CITY to a STATE. Therefore, just by geographic density alone, it would stand to reason that Chi-Congo would have more niggers per square mile than an entire state… even Mississippi.

        • Metro area is mostly black and that doesn’t nessarily include Indiana’s Gary.

  6. I really hoped to see Tulsi take on Kamala and Biden. This lineup seems designed to avoid any serious debate over interventionism.

  7. HW, Yang had better assert himself with that bunch of blowhards. Otherwise, Yang will just be remembered as the meek East Asian fella going on about UBI and automation.

    Biden and Sanders are pros on the big stage, so it will be easy for Yang to blend into the background.

    So far Yang has only done one-on-one interviews where he had the viewers complete attention.

    On the other hand, Tulsi should shine against that batch of clowns she’ll be debating against.

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