Thoughts on the Political Compass

Why Economic Alignment Seems to Matter a Lot More Than You Think

Today I have come to the conclusion that economic alignment on the political compass matters a lot more than people think, even though most people only really care about libertarian vs. authoritarian and ignore the economic side because they think it is much more abstract and want to forgive people.

The fact is economics matters nearly as much as libertarian vs. authoritarian. For example, the reason wings are falling off Boeing planes isn’t DEI, it’s because Boeing lobbied politicians to allow them to stop regulating planes. Pilots aren’t responsible for if a wing falls off anyway and the pilot managed to safely land the plane despite that, go pilots!

The fact is “woke” in the sense of social liberalism or libertarianism is not the problem, the problem is corporations and political lobbyists are trashing everything and then hiring some Black women and gay guys to cover their butt. That’s it. This is a huge problem because it makes all the people who still have bigotry hiding somewhere think Black women and whatever are the problem when Black women helped with NASA back when it was still functional, it wasn’t just White guys. Whenever people see something going wrong and blame it on the wrong thing they become dysfunctional extremists and that’s why every extreme really is on the same team.

Likewise, university professors, even left-wing ones, are probably the most annoyed with what’s going on with higher education of anyone because they work there and they don’t like corporations buying universities and installing people like Claudine Gay. Claudine Gay plagiarized someone you know, and who would that be? More talented professors than her. Never mind that I read the whole thing about Ronald Fryer before I ever joined Substack, though I find it interesting he’s an economist.

We used to want to live in Star Trek and now everyone is demanding we go back to the Dark Ages. We have to fight if we don’t want to lose hold of our own ideals, because we don’t want to go back to the Dark Ages, that sounds awful. Thank you for coming to my Substack talk.