Yea, it's politics. You'd think they have people in some kinda office that they actually throw support behind, or at least candidates challenging the people in office to pull them left. They don't. They have hypothetical circumstances where everything falls perfectly into place if only the current folk in office would play hardball.
Bri is a corporate lawyer by training like me, she has no actual grassroots organizing background. She’s basically someone making the sort of arguments you would make in the policy section of a law school exam or if you were writing articles the way she used to about how things “should be” and how we “should” think. She’s an essayist, not a politician. And I think that’s fine. Some people have the sole role of fostering your imagination. The problem is that Sanders gave her a role she shouldn’t have had because of her ideological fealty and she’s used that perch to make political critiques that aren’t grounded in reality. In other words, high off her own supply.
Exactly
grifter - a person who engages in petty or small scale swindling.
Yeah, unless she’s making over 600k a year, she’s making less than what she would be making in big law at her seniority level and I’m understating it depending on if she made partner.
She had already left big law and was working at a boutique firm that was letting her write for current affairs and shoot her podcast. Her likely salary was 350k. Point is, yes, she needs to pay bills but she also genuinely believes everything she says. I went to law school with a lot of her type. I think you guys have friends that are just like you - which isn’t a knock - most people gravitate to people like them. The only difference is those types usually end up in public interest law - some variation of immigration, tenant rights, juvenile defense, prisoner’s rights, etc. Go look at any name brand public interest organization and 45 percent of them are just like her. And at her level, they’re making six figures as well. For example, if I went the public interest route right now, I could command 150k pretty easily.
Not in particular. I’m left leaning and remember being annoyed as shyt whenever she talked in class. I’m at least 2 occasions she burned an entire class period arguing the professor about some dumb shyt. Like straight up argued for an hour+
Of course, and at the risk of outing myself, I personally asked her how she pulled off the boutique job while doing the other things. She wasn’t billing those many hours anymore. It was in the 1800 to 1900 range. Also, it’s not really a long slog for the six figure public interest job with our credentials. You’d be doing that within 5 years or less depending on who you’re working for. You know, and I know, the big PI places love people of our pedigree. Once you reach the point where you’re supervising others you’re not far off. But yeah, her current job has less stress than ours regardless unless people hating you on the internet is a problem for you.
