• 43% of Americans view socialism positively
• Positive views of big business down to 35%; capitalism steady at 55%
• Small business, free enterprise remain most popular economic concepts
Connecting systems together into a larger system often has advantages…but there are often disadvantages and risks. This is true of power grids and of national economic systems. Some thoughts:
Part of the hostility to ‘big business’ is driven by the fact that most contacts an individual has are with corporations, not government agencies, and too many of them are becoming equally or even more dysfunctional.
Going after medical, by way of Obamacare, was instrumental in this. Doctors, by and large, operated as small businesses. Small businesses have had a target on their backs for years and have suffered under the demands of having to more and more take on the burden of the corporate bureaucratic requirements by way of regualtion. Not a fit! This was on the radar screen for years and now we have a mess, as detailed in the rise and acceptance of socialism and far worse care etc etc–see Neo’s hospital post.
David Foster wrote:
”…too many of them are becoming equally or even more dysfunctional.”
Speaking of dysfunctional, that describes Chicagoboyz these days. Trying to visit the site results in:
”Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds.”
…and a checkbox. Checking the box causes
”Verification successful. Waiting for chicagoboyz.net to respond”
to flash on the screen for about half a second. It then disappears and is replaced by the checkbox. Repeat ad infinitum, making your site unusable. FYI.
Worked instantly for me too, Huxley. It is common for different people to have wildly different response times when visiting a website. A cause, not the only one, is different browsers and/or different settings.
huxley, on a prior thread you wrote of a science fiction story, “The Girl in the Golden Atom” as the source for the quote on the reason for time’s existence. I found the book for free on goodreads.
Thanks for the recommendation! I read it and found it entertaining. (And you are right, the quote is in there.) I’m surprised it’s never been made into a movie. Giants, mad scientists, huge sparrow and lizard fights, romance, war, politics… Quite the ripping yarn.
I haven’t seen any of the Marvel, Antman moves, nor read the comics, but I suppose it’s the same premise. I also loved the turn of the century, Men’s club component, similar to “Around the World in 80 Days.”
Sundance posted the transcript of Secretary Rubio’s latest presser.
It is fantastic – some of the questions are repetitive, but he never wavers from his positions or talking points, and they are all good ones.
In the words of one commenter: “Only person in this administration who seems to both fully comprehend and fully support and be able to verbalize President Trump’s foreign, economic and domestic policy besides President Trump.
Sec of State Rubio is a believer, he is sold on what he is doing because you cannot fake the responses he gave.
Impressive command of any topic presented to him.
No one person is perfect but Sec Rubio has self actualized and is operating on the highest possible levels of achievement at this moment in time.
Not only that but I couldn’t detect any shading or desembling , he’s straight up telling it as he sees it. Refreshing.”
Or another commenter, more briefly: “How did Rubio go from Young Gun RINO goober jerk to this? Quite the transformation. Most people can’t/don’t/won’t change, quite impressive really. I hope he never goes back to his former self, this Rubio is a good one.”
AesopFan, I concur with the comments on Rubio’s current level of performance.
We should not forget he was also impressive as the speaker of the FL House, before pursuing senatorial and presidential positions. Part of that was his history as the son of hard working Cuban immigrant parents, etc. Although perhaps he did tend to repeat that story a little too often. 🙂
He may have also been naive in following McCain into the immigration “solution” of the Gang of 8, but of course he was sympathetic to making that system better, even when the rest of the country was unhappy with excessive illegal immigration from the Southern hemisphere or elsewhere (China, Iran, middle east, etc.) as only Trump seemed to really understand out of 17 candidates.
So at the 2016 presidential debates Rubio’s image fell down after repeatedly being misunderstood about Obama’s goals and Christie’s self serving tirade against him. But he and Cruz were 45 or 46 in 2016, men on the move who perhaps still really needed a little more “seasoning” and experience.
Seeing this was part of the reason I believe we need to amend Article II to make the minimum age for a president to be at least 50 to 55; although some people propose 60 to 65 and I don’t feel that is necessary. I am just trying to judge what level of experience in the 21st century matches the maturity and experience of a candidate in 1787, when the threshold was set at 35 years old. Could 40+ year old senators or governors in our present day still be exhibiting a “flash in the pan” level of achievement?
[I recall Obama was also 46 at the beginning of his first presidential campaign. Clearly someone who needed rather more real world experience to actually hold the presidency.]
R2L:
And then there was JFK — 43 years-old when elected.
I’m not sure how I feel about that.
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Socialism’s Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
Connecting systems together into a larger system often has advantages…but there are often disadvantages and risks. This is true of power grids and of national economic systems. Some thoughts:
https://davidfoster273133.substack.com/p/coupling
Part of the hostility to ‘big business’ is driven by the fact that most contacts an individual has are with corporations, not government agencies, and too many of them are becoming equally or even more dysfunctional.
Going after medical, by way of Obamacare, was instrumental in this. Doctors, by and large, operated as small businesses. Small businesses have had a target on their backs for years and have suffered under the demands of having to more and more take on the burden of the corporate bureaucratic requirements by way of regualtion. Not a fit! This was on the radar screen for years and now we have a mess, as detailed in the rise and acceptance of socialism and far worse care etc etc–see Neo’s hospital post.
David Foster wrote:
”…too many of them are becoming equally or even more dysfunctional.”
Speaking of dysfunctional, that describes Chicagoboyz these days. Trying to visit the site results in:
”Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds.”
…and a checkbox. Checking the box causes
”Verification successful. Waiting for chicagoboyz.net to respond”
to flash on the screen for about half a second. It then disappears and is replaced by the checkbox. Repeat ad infinitum, making your site unusable. FYI.
https://chicagoboyz.net/ works for me.
Which is not to say it works for everyone.
Worked instantly for me too, Huxley. It is common for different people to have wildly different response times when visiting a website. A cause, not the only one, is different browsers and/or different settings.
huxley, on a prior thread you wrote of a science fiction story, “The Girl in the Golden Atom” as the source for the quote on the reason for time’s existence. I found the book for free on goodreads.
Thanks for the recommendation! I read it and found it entertaining. (And you are right, the quote is in there.) I’m surprised it’s never been made into a movie. Giants, mad scientists, huge sparrow and lizard fights, romance, war, politics… Quite the ripping yarn.
I haven’t seen any of the Marvel, Antman moves, nor read the comics, but I suppose it’s the same premise. I also loved the turn of the century, Men’s club component, similar to “Around the World in 80 Days.”
Sundance posted the transcript of Secretary Rubio’s latest presser.
It is fantastic – some of the questions are repetitive, but he never wavers from his positions or talking points, and they are all good ones.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/09/25/transcript-of-secretary-rubio-press-conference-following-united-nations-general-assembly/
In the words of one commenter: “Only person in this administration who seems to both fully comprehend and fully support and be able to verbalize President Trump’s foreign, economic and domestic policy besides President Trump.
Sec of State Rubio is a believer, he is sold on what he is doing because you cannot fake the responses he gave.
Impressive command of any topic presented to him.
No one person is perfect but Sec Rubio has self actualized and is operating on the highest possible levels of achievement at this moment in time.
Not only that but I couldn’t detect any shading or desembling , he’s straight up telling it as he sees it. Refreshing.”
Or another commenter, more briefly: “How did Rubio go from Young Gun RINO goober jerk to this? Quite the transformation. Most people can’t/don’t/won’t change, quite impressive really. I hope he never goes back to his former self, this Rubio is a good one.”
AesopFan, I concur with the comments on Rubio’s current level of performance.
We should not forget he was also impressive as the speaker of the FL House, before pursuing senatorial and presidential positions. Part of that was his history as the son of hard working Cuban immigrant parents, etc. Although perhaps he did tend to repeat that story a little too often. 🙂
He may have also been naive in following McCain into the immigration “solution” of the Gang of 8, but of course he was sympathetic to making that system better, even when the rest of the country was unhappy with excessive illegal immigration from the Southern hemisphere or elsewhere (China, Iran, middle east, etc.) as only Trump seemed to really understand out of 17 candidates.
So at the 2016 presidential debates Rubio’s image fell down after repeatedly being misunderstood about Obama’s goals and Christie’s self serving tirade against him. But he and Cruz were 45 or 46 in 2016, men on the move who perhaps still really needed a little more “seasoning” and experience.
Seeing this was part of the reason I believe we need to amend Article II to make the minimum age for a president to be at least 50 to 55; although some people propose 60 to 65 and I don’t feel that is necessary. I am just trying to judge what level of experience in the 21st century matches the maturity and experience of a candidate in 1787, when the threshold was set at 35 years old. Could 40+ year old senators or governors in our present day still be exhibiting a “flash in the pan” level of achievement?
[I recall Obama was also 46 at the beginning of his first presidential campaign. Clearly someone who needed rather more real world experience to actually hold the presidency.]
R2L:
And then there was JFK — 43 years-old when elected.
I’m not sure how I feel about that.