Jane Coaston

But you also have this sense of like a humorism of like, if everybody just had the politics I have.

Then we wouldn't be in this mess.

That is the view of a child.

Right, exactly.

But I want to counter the leftist doomerism and also the leftist sense that if people just did things their way, everything would be so much different and everyone is doomed because people will never understand how to do things the correct way, which is their way.

Oh, yeah.

But I think that there's also something that I want to disrupt on Blue Sky and elsewhere is leftism or any political cadre as a club, as kind of like, if you don't do things this way, you can't hang out with us.

And leftism as an identity rather than as a politics you're trying to get somewhere towards.

Do you want to be in power or do you want to yell at people who are in power?

Because those are two different things.

And you see that already with people being like, oh, you know, why is it Zoram Mamdani?

I don't know.

liquidated the kulaks yet.

And I'm like, it's only February.

But like, there's a sense of like, if we are going to do this thing, we can't just have a politics of anti Trump, we are going to need to have a pro something else politics for 2028.

You have to be forward looking.

And so on blue sky, what I am attempting to do one is just like, enjoy myself talking about sports and stuff with people I like.

But also I am attempting to ask people to create a

Pro something politic, not just a I really hate liberals like there are people in blue sky for whom, you know, they would have Trump stay at their house before they would ever entertain like some liberal who they're annoyed by who worked at, I don't know, Center for the American Progress once like.

If you are a leftist, I want to see a pro-leftist politic from you.