• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    Lol, those are bellwether economic statistics for any state, it’s not ‘cherry picking’.

    Capital D democrats love California because it’s a democratic stronghold and a testing ground for all kinds of liberal policy, but it’s also dominated by capital interests. In terms of GDP it represents 1/6th of the entire US economy.

    It’s one of the clearest examples of liberalism’s relationship with capital. Most socialists would not look fondly on California governance.

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      1 month ago

      Uh huh

      We both know you hate California because all you ever do is attack Democrats. There are dozens of “bellwether economic indicators” and California is doing excellent on most of them. Of course you’d pick a couple of bad ones because you have an agenda.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 month ago

        Well I do attack democrats an awful lot, but not because they’re any kind of model of leftist governance

        Those are the metrics any leftist would be interested in with any highly developed state or economy. How distributed is the wealth? Are low-earners able to afford a comparative standard of living? Do they have economic and employment mobility? ect. They look to answer the question, “to what degree is the working class subject to coercive capitalist conditions?”

        Other economic metrics are weighted toward assessing the performance of capital, and are far less relevant to the questions leftists care about answering.