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>you're dogwhistling that it's "the other side" that has the terrible philosophy.

I'm simply making the point that some political systems imply moving towards an ideal goal, others do not.

It isn't like monarchies (by far the most common setup) are moving towards some ideal beyond stability. Communism most certainly was viewed as a work in progress.

(side note: I'm sick of the term 'dog whistling'. That term itself implies a belief system.)

> The alternative is extremely straightforward - ramp up public spending on infrastructure

Hang on. Isn't that essentially what the Japanese did?

I wonder which domestic investments turned out to be the smart move in Japan.

Here's an assignment for you.

Have your compiler generate high quality assembly language for a DSP.

Another angle.

'How long did a project this size take last time?'.

As an aside, years ago I worked at a company that did thorough (and inaccurate) bottom-up schedules. I got dinged for not using quarter hour accuracy in the various task estimates.

C'est la vie. You're not supposed to steal cats either.

The one thing that's fairly hard to get around is the biannual inspection.

In days of yore, a box of donuts could get someone to hot pipe your car. Now, not so much. It was kind of a necessity if you owned a car that wouldn't pass even in absolutely pristine new condition.

Besides being (I would guess) slightly more crime-friendly than other places, I'll bet part of the problem is the expense of catalytic converters in CA. They are probably worth a lot more as spares than as raw materials.

It seems to me that CARB forces people to buy OEM parts, or at least some kind of on-a-list part for $$$.

>PBS seems increasingly irrelevant

I would agree. In terms of production quality, youtube videos can be all over the map (although the cost of quality continues to decrease), but I'd say that the large-scale commercial broadcasters may well continue to dwindle. Personally, 1 guy (or 2/3) youtube shows are my favorites, they tend to be more charming and cover niche areas.

For newsie news, I find myself using mostly RT in my news reader. There's a POV of course, but they don't carry much US domestic news, which is fine by me.

> The underlying fallacy is the idea that politics has any conclusions at all.

I'd say that there are certain flavors of political thought that have an unfolding utopia built into them. With enough of XXXism, an optimal state is reached.

It's an exercise for the reader to determine which sorts of philosophy of human organization have that notion built-in.