Why Would You Ever Expect A Politician To Help You At All?

That's long since not been their role.

We will commence with this article, from “a grumpy economist.”

That particular article is mostly an old academic who works for Stanford complaining about Paul Krugman, so you can ignore it if you’d like. I just thought that paragraph was interesting, because it speaks to a bigger question: what is the point of politics these days?

I didn’t really care abo…