I think there is so much misinformation about Bitcoin, especially when thinking about the environment. Unfortunately a very loud group of people who made Bitcoin political have slowed adoption. Bitcoin is for everyone.

Another group allienated from Bitcoina are women. This group is a powerhouse in local communities. They volunteer for the PTA, League for Women voters (which is non partisan), and various other groups that help families. If you want a grass movement this is a group to reach out to locally.

- aggressively pushed the narrow agendas with no reflection on how general folks were feeling (woke, green, “security” - see bottom)

- continue to use key issues that most folks feel very strongly about as political strategy and vote getting rather that governing

- sends Billions to expand war, particularly against the exact same groups of people they’re supposedly trying to help and advance (poor brown folks - see top)

Yeah what fascinates me in some ways about the Biden admin was just what a mix of perspectives it was, yet that never quite "gelled" into a coherent ruling ideology.

You have early on the emphasis on "Big Spending" projects as political wins. Like, we passed $Xbillion of spending on this, $Ybillion of spending on that... And then, as Ezra Klein has recently pointed out, there's very little to show for these grand infrastructure "investments" because of the vast oceans of bureaucratic red tape to prevent anything useful from actually being built (his discussion about "rural broadband" is particularly damning in this regard).

But then, when it came to actually punishing people, particularly in the Tech industry, they weren't afraid to "move fast and break things." Crypto was aggressively regulated, Big Tech was under threat from antitrust cops like Lina Kahn, and at least according to Marc Andreessen, the White House was going to crush Silicon Valley AI under its boot if Kamala won.

So as Wiggum said: "Ma'am, the Law is powerless to help you, not to punish you."