Saturday, February 2, 2019

¿Andrew Yang wants universal basic income?

Since we discussed Baudelaire and his views of immortalization through poetry, I figured I would share a different view of immortalization. Historical immortalization. 

As you might know, the 2020 presidential campaign is about to be in full swing. Here is the line up for yet another wonderful campaign. 

Running/exploring bids: 
  1. President
    1. Donald Trump (United States of America) (R)
  2. Senators 
    1. Cory Booker (New Jersey) (D)
    2. Kamala Harris (California) (D)
    3. Kristen Gillibrand (New York) (D)
    4. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) (D)
  3. House Reps 
    1. John Delaney (Maryland) (D)
    2. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) (D)
  4. Mayors 
    1. Julian Castro (San Antonio) (D)
    2. Pete Buttigieg (South Bend) (D)
  5. Businessman 
    1. Marianne Williamson 
    2. Andrew Yang* wants universal basic income (oh okay, sure you do) 
Potentials: 
  • Joe Biden
  • Michael Bloomberg 
  • Sherrod Brown 
  • Steve Bullock 
  • John Hickenlooper 
  • Jay Inslee 
  • Amy Klobuchar 
  • Mitch Landrieu
  • Terry McAuliffe
  • Jeff Merkley 
  • Tim Ryan 
  • Bernie Sanders 
  • Howard Schultz 
  • Eric Swalwell 
  • John Kasich 


2 comments:

Unknown said...

I’m going to make a realllllyyyyy early prediction. As we can see, almost all of the 2020 candidates who announced they were running were democrats. This is a really big field with people from all over the spectrum!! We have reps, senators, buisnessmen, mayors, a former VP, etc. Having no relation to my political beliefs, I am going to predict that Corey Booker is going to be the strongest Democrat candidate and be their parties nomination for president. While he is liberal, he is somewhat business/capitalist in his thinking rather than the others who have repeat called for socialist policies. He also seems to have more hope for the United States than the others. Many of the other candidates have repeatedly only criticized our nations problems, instead of recognizing some of the great achievements we have made the past couple of years. Because of this, Booker might be more popular, pro-American candidate and will probably receive the most votes out of the dems. If Joe Biden ends up running for sure, it is going to be really close. He might get it because of his name and clout, but we’ll see. As for the republicans, I don’t think anyone has a chance against Donald Trump. John Kasich is probably going to run again but there’s no shot he’ll win. Booker/Biden vs Trump 2020.

Anna Beth Talbot said...

If we want to actually elaborate on Baudelaire's concept of immortalization, we can easily talk about national biases in writing history that has been going on for centuries. Take the Civil War; for many years afterward, the southern states still felt bitter over their defeat (ex: people who wave confederate flags around in 2019), and these feelings very much effected history textbooks made in the years to come, and what children of future generations learned about their country. Some states literally used to state in US history textbooks that the South won the Civil War. For several years, these lies and manipulations of history were "immortalized" by textbooks, and taught to children as to be true.