6/6
A unified left would mean a stronger Democratic Party.

More durable coalitions.

And better chances at achieving progressive goals.

But that requires swallowing pride, resisting purity politics, and embracing coalition-building.

5/6
Liberals and socialists both believe in a mixed-market economy. Both want strong social services.

So why do we keep acting like we’re enemies?

4/6
At first glance, they seem like oil and water.

Liberals defend capitalism. Socialists want to tear it down.

But if you zoom out, both ideologies have moved toward the same place on the political spectrum: the center-left.

3/6
One of the most predictable fights in politics just played out again: liberals and socialists clashing in spectacular fashion—this time in the streaming world.

But the question beneath the drama is real: Can liberals and socialists actually work together?

2/6
I wrote about why a liberal-socialist coalition makes sense—and why it’s so damn hard to get there.

open.substack.com/pub/jchaoliv...

10/10
Narratives matter. They shape how we understand voters, policy, and power. When the narrative is false, the strategy that follows usually is too.

9/10
There’s a bigger problem: Abundance uses panic to push policy. Its urgency comes from a narrative that isn’t grounded in data. That spells bad politics.

8/10
That framing breaks down under scrutiny.
1) People leaving blue states aren’t mostly heading to red ones.
2) Child populations are declining nationwide.
3) And blue counties are still growing or stabilizing.

7/10
But Abundance doesn't just repeat this narrative—it builds on it. It claims Democrats govern the places working families are fleeing. It warns of demographic doom for blue states. And it frames this as proof of liberal failure.

6/10
This story oversimplifies decades of realignment and ignores ideology.

5/10
And Democrats didn't lose the working class—because they never fully had it.

4/10
If we define “working class” by income, the vote split in 2024 was nearly even.

3/10
Since Trump's reelection, a dominant story has taken hold: "Democrats lost the working class."

It's also not true.

2/10
I broke down one core problem with Abundance—and the danger of following its story—in a critique here:

open.substack.com/pub/jchaoliv...

Although they acknowledged that "on average the corrections failed to accomplish their objectives", there are still ways to make them more effective and thats somewhat positive.

Another piece of research that I found noted 4 factors to correct misinfo about science more successful.

1) Good news corrects negative misinfo more easily
2) The more details, the better
3) Don't make it political
4) If it is political, align it with the recipient's ideology

This may explain why a thoughtful person may come to the most ridiculous conclusions i.e. conspiracy theories.

They just seem intelligent because of a "need for cognition" rather than have actual reasoning ability.