You assume that I'm conservative, but I'm not. I'm a Democrat who is growing increasingly concerned about their voting base demanding populism. AOC, Sanders, Warren are progressives. I don't consider establishment Democrats progressive.
I didn't say that. I responded directly to your own statement about not being a progressive and the fact that progressives are generally, implied by your words, economic illiterate.
Those were your words, not mine.
Whether you are a Democrat or any other party member is kind of irrelevant; although it certainly is amusing.
You made a lot of loaded assumptions, the most objectively wrong one being that I was conservative. "I'd likely be progressive if American progressivism wasn't so economically illiterate (as opposed to say Piketty)" means that I share similar values as progressives, but think that all of them in my home country are a joke.
> I'm not sure your statement can be read any other way than "I don't like perspectives that disagree with my primed and preconceived beliefs"
You could have read the second half of the comment which explains why I think progressives are economically illiterate and an example of a non economically illiterate policy.
> For decades, professional American economists vote for the democratic party at a rate greatly exceeding the general population
This assumes that I'm not Democrat. Maybe it's partially at fault for not being clear about what progressive means, but again the rest of the comment would not sense with this assumption.
> there's also something to say about how people invoke the term "economics" in their own personal posts as some sort of grandstanding dog-whistle
