Gavin Newsom sues FOX Noise for slandering him and many old-school Democrats tell him to toughen up. Those critics are missing the point.

@SatanBurger I'm not sure that is entirely the solution, if it is at all. When Eric Adams won the election for Mayor of New York (not that long ago), everyone rallied around him and claimed "that's the way to do it." The solution is to be moderate, practical, and clear-speaking. Then, his true character came to light and it's now on to the next guy who is a straight talker offering unrealistic, rainbow-chasing dreams. Free mass transit, low rents, government-run grocery stores. Indeed! It's reminiscent of that Nigerian Prince turned General turned banker turned businessman looking for someone reliable to turn over his multi-million dollar windfall and all he needs is your bank information. Once everything gets settled, you will give him his money back and he will give you a hefty reward for helping him out. Oh... and he knows he can trust you because he "heard" you are reliable.

These pie-in-the-sky offers of free rides, free food, and cheap apartments are great... until they clash with reality. And, in reality they are scams on the order of magnitude of the Nigerian Prince/General/banker/businessman. It may be too expensive to live in New York City and there are practical ways to bring down costs but it's not with scams that politicians calculate the electorate will get over or forget about after the election.

Yeah Jasmine Crockett is vocal. That's good; Gavin Newsom is challenging Cry-Baby-trump by standing up to him. That's great. It's not their ages that define them though; it's their courage to take practical in-your-face action that can be delivered on despite being in a political party that is not in power. Anyone of any age can do that. Promising things that are not practical is as much missing the point as being critical of fighting back.

@MarkPaul Many capitalist countries already have some form of ubi, free transit, low cost child care and higher wages as well as high speed rails. Meanwhile our united states has transportation still in the 90s. The policies by the left are actually already been in many countries, it's just demonized cos Americans like poverty.

Fun fact, human sacrifice was responsible for organized societies. Basically blaming the poor was what brought order and unity to people so they didn't take it out on each other but always an out group instead.

The time is going to be over cos countries will move on, meanwhile America wants to make things again but also equally be consumers plus isolationist which is all paradoxical but whatever. But also don't want to work like they do in non consumer countries to make stuff in the first place.

So have fun with that.

@SatanBurger It's not that you can't have "free" mass transit, low cost child care, higher wages, government subsidized grocery stores, etc. It's that these ideas have been around forever, but no one (NO ONE, not ever Bernie Sanders) wants to drill into the details of how "free" gets paid. Of course it's not free. It's easy to proclaim that "rich" people should 100% fund it through an antiquated form of income distribution. It's just as easy to mandate price controls on private companies and let them manage their investors. It's effortless to dictate livable wages when you don't consider the implications of those higher wages. The point is no one wants to follow the effects of "free" through the entire marketplace pipeline.

Maybe Americans wouldn't mind government control over the economy. Maybe America will embrace higher consumer prices to cover higher business costs. Maybe American mass transit workers will work for free. Maybe those who are deemed "rich" won't mind paying for the transportation of others and will be more than happy to be refused exit to out-of-state residences that aren't so tax intensive. The main point is those implications should be talked about and detailed because "free" does come at a cost.