The Abundance circus swears it’s a “big tent,” but who’s actually inside the tent? Koch money, crypto cowboys, Peter Thiel’s fertility cultists, and Andreessen’s crypto-burning ghost of Enron past. Ezra Klein may not dream of mass deportations, but the financiers underwriting his “abundant” utopia sure as hell do.
What you’ve outlined is the oldest game in American politics: liberals write the pamphlets, billionaires write the checks, and suddenly what started as an intra-Democratic “fight about the future of liberalism” becomes a bipartisan liquidation sale of the commons. When John Arnold and the Pacific Legal Foundation are in the sponsor lineup, you don’t have a coalition - you’ve been colonized.
Klein and Thompson wanted to rebrand liberalism as visionary technocracy. What they delivered is a Trojan horse where the “vision” is funded by people who think unions, environmentalists, and town halls are obstacles to be bulldozed. They can insist they’re progressives, but when the guest list includes Koch emissaries, Thiel’s surveillance state, and a foundation that literally cut checks to Swedish neo-Nazis, the question isn’t whether Abundance defines the future of the Democratic Party. It’s whether the Democratic Party is willing to be defined by the very forces trying to dismantle it.
Did you have the expression “broad church” in America or was that just Britain? Sounds like this “big tent” is the same shit again. The broad church was how centrist Labour argued for the introduction of “moderate” (ie Conservative) policies on the grounds of appealing to many different types of people.
A broad church, aye, but funnily enough one that never let socialists near the lectern. They wanted our votes but had no intention of delivering our priorities. Anyway it’s dead now, they’ve well and truly fucked it.
Exactly! “Broad church” and “big tent” are just polite euphemisms for a neoliberal pickpocket act. They claim inclusivity, but somehow the pulpit is always reserved for the same deregulation crowd, the same billionaires with a new buzzword. Socialists get the collection plate passed under their noses, never the microphone. And like Labour’s broad church, the Abundance tent isn’t really capacious; it’s a funnel, narrowing the left out while laundering right-wing policy through liberal branding. The only thing abundant here is the hypocrisy.
Of course churches are an iconic feature of the British landscape, while “big tent” sounds like a shitty piece of cultural appropriation of Native American culture, which accounts for us getting broad churches and you getting big tents.
Yeah well, I haven’t read his book and I’ve no desire to, but that is very much the impression I’ve got. As I say though. Over here it looks very much like the most recent lap of this screwed the pooch and the whole lesser evil argument looks severely damaged at this point. And to watch the corporate democrats flapping around like a fish dying on the ground, seems possible the same might be true over there.
Very much a corporate astroturfed organization. We do have a problem with building housing in this country so hopefully they can bring a YIMBY agenda to more than just the blue states. And logically they should be streamlining the process of building clean energy infrastructure. Good luck with that !
The Abundance circus swears it’s a “big tent,” but who’s actually inside the tent? Koch money, crypto cowboys, Peter Thiel’s fertility cultists, and Andreessen’s crypto-burning ghost of Enron past. Ezra Klein may not dream of mass deportations, but the financiers underwriting his “abundant” utopia sure as hell do.
What you’ve outlined is the oldest game in American politics: liberals write the pamphlets, billionaires write the checks, and suddenly what started as an intra-Democratic “fight about the future of liberalism” becomes a bipartisan liquidation sale of the commons. When John Arnold and the Pacific Legal Foundation are in the sponsor lineup, you don’t have a coalition - you’ve been colonized.
Klein and Thompson wanted to rebrand liberalism as visionary technocracy. What they delivered is a Trojan horse where the “vision” is funded by people who think unions, environmentalists, and town halls are obstacles to be bulldozed. They can insist they’re progressives, but when the guest list includes Koch emissaries, Thiel’s surveillance state, and a foundation that literally cut checks to Swedish neo-Nazis, the question isn’t whether Abundance defines the future of the Democratic Party. It’s whether the Democratic Party is willing to be defined by the very forces trying to dismantle it.
Did you have the expression “broad church” in America or was that just Britain? Sounds like this “big tent” is the same shit again. The broad church was how centrist Labour argued for the introduction of “moderate” (ie Conservative) policies on the grounds of appealing to many different types of people.
A broad church, aye, but funnily enough one that never let socialists near the lectern. They wanted our votes but had no intention of delivering our priorities. Anyway it’s dead now, they’ve well and truly fucked it.
Exactly! “Broad church” and “big tent” are just polite euphemisms for a neoliberal pickpocket act. They claim inclusivity, but somehow the pulpit is always reserved for the same deregulation crowd, the same billionaires with a new buzzword. Socialists get the collection plate passed under their noses, never the microphone. And like Labour’s broad church, the Abundance tent isn’t really capacious; it’s a funnel, narrowing the left out while laundering right-wing policy through liberal branding. The only thing abundant here is the hypocrisy.
Of course churches are an iconic feature of the British landscape, while “big tent” sounds like a shitty piece of cultural appropriation of Native American culture, which accounts for us getting broad churches and you getting big tents.
Yeah well, I haven’t read his book and I’ve no desire to, but that is very much the impression I’ve got. As I say though. Over here it looks very much like the most recent lap of this screwed the pooch and the whole lesser evil argument looks severely damaged at this point. And to watch the corporate democrats flapping around like a fish dying on the ground, seems possible the same might be true over there.
well said
I’m afraid I agree 100% so far 🤨
Very much a corporate astroturfed organization. We do have a problem with building housing in this country so hopefully they can bring a YIMBY agenda to more than just the blue states. And logically they should be streamlining the process of building clean energy infrastructure. Good luck with that !
The Democrats started the genocide. They're dead to me💀