It's not aliens. It's never aliens. (Also: Obama and Politics)

Uh, yeah, sure.

I don't understand how it isn't most likely (if not obvious) that the military-industrial complex is looking for a new revenue stream. Of course they want us to believe in UFO - it is all about increasing their profits.

I mention this because it came up in Ezra Klein's interview of Obama. But these are the better quotes:

In a particularly striking moment, Obama reveals that across the entirety of his presidency, his single largest drop in white support came when he criticized the white police officer who arrested Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Black Harvard professor, on the porch of his own home. “It was support that I’d never completely get back,” Obama writes.

According to FiveThirtyEight, Republicans hold a 3.5 point advantage in the Electoral College, a 5-point advantage in the Senate and a 2-point advantage in the House. Even after winning many more votes than Republicans in 2018 and 2020, [Democrats] are at a 50-50 split in the Senate, and hold a bare 4-seat majority in the House. Odds are that they will lose the House and possibly the Senate in 2022. 

To hold national power, Democrats need to win voters who are right of center; Republicans do not need to win voters who are left of center. Even worse, Republicans control the election laws and redistricting processes in 23 states, while Democrats control 15.

Most Democrats I know are panicked over the convergence of their geographic disadvantage and the Republican assault on democracy. In my view, they’re right to be. Their situation is dire, and if the Republican Party could reorient itself around more competent candidates, it could become catastrophic. Obama has argued that Senate Democrats should abolish the filibuster and pass the legislation necessary to protect American democracy. I wish they’d listen to him on that. But as of now, the Democrats’ democracy agenda is imperiled, and so are they.

“The point was to win,” he writes.