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Nor do the Lone Progressive Dissenters who turn out to be right receive any reward or acknowledgement for it!

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.

11/9/26, 6:42 pm21 reposts154 likes

David Roberts

@volts.wtf

11 Sept

"Violence is bad and we probably should avoid it at all costs" has like a 999 batting average throughout history yet the people saying it now are dismissed as naive sissies & the people who were right about it in the past get no glory for it at all.

James Southern

@james.fieldleveltech.org

11 Sept

Defending allies is an exception to this right?

sundiego2015.bsky.social

@sundiego2015.bsky.social

11 Sept

You see this with Matty Y. He is resentful that he was wrong and even more resentful at those who were right about the Iraq War (see his contempt for Paul Krugman).

Wah

@robotpirateninja.com

12 Sept

And you see the future career prospects of difference of people being right versus people being wrong, versus people agreeing with the people who have the money (regardless of correctness).

sundiego2015.bsky.social

@sundiego2015.bsky.social

12 Sept

You put that very well.

Rob

@robertferry.bsky.social

12 Sept

This has been true my entire life (I’m 50). The left has always been proven correct in hindsight (on trade, on wars, on economy, on domestic issues, on culture, on taxation, on justice and accountability…) and yet voters have consistently chosen to move right.