No offense but Goldman as I observe is a good congressman. The last thing the democratic party needs is an intramural feud.
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I agree.
From what little that I do know, it does surprise me that Lander is primarying Goldman. At the same time, Lander also has a large base of supporters in the district who love him and believe in him. He also has a much more substantial footprint in local NYC politics than Goldman has, so maybe the people of NY10 see things that we outsiders do not see.
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No doubt but since Goldman has unlimited funds it seems a waste of time. Anyway I imagine they see the candidate as “to the left of Goldman”. That’s not a winning formula nationally I think.
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Lander and the people of NY10 may think that is exactly one of the reasons that Goldman needs to be primaried 
ETA – There is nothing wrong with being wealthy, but it should not be the reason that anyone wins an election against a more worthy candidate. Wealth should not be able to buy congressional seats.
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I don’t get that. If that was a problem it would have shown up in his work. Maybe we should ask Josh who lives in his district.
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Wealth is economic power, and unfortunately in a kleptocrat setting translates to concentrated political power. In East Germany, which had a higher living standard than the USSR, a part of the population actually supported the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany (SED), but a lot of support was coerced. The SED got its juice from the USSR. The Techbro move on the GOP is something similar. There is a struggle for economic power in the tech space at the moment with roughly $25 trillion going to AI dominance and hopefully control of an AGI somewhere down the road. (US GDP is $30 trillion). Already some competitors seem to be struggling, with Oracle running into private debt challenges. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has noted, for example, that the $8 trillion spend on AI data centers is economically unrealistic.
But with that kind of money in play, a lot of people will be thirsty for a piece of the action. Case in point, last week’s announcement of the merger of DJT Media with TAE Technologies, a fusion energy company pushing the concept of burning a hydrogen-boron isotope fuel in a swirly cigar-shaped containment – with lasers! Fusion in the core of the sun is one thing. It happens at a mere 15 million degrees C thanks to the immense pressure. Moreover, it is a self-stabilizing reaction as the sun expands if the reaction speeds up, thereby returning the reaction back to original conditions. The TAE reactor, which is not flexible, needs to hit billions of degrees to get the same effect, and their current goal is a reactor that operates at 3 billion degrees C. In any case, TAE’s promised tech won’t be ready in time to power all these data centers or save them from rapid obsolescence.
Something like 40% of the market cap of all traded stocks is sitting on AI play equities. Normally, the central bank or treasury steps in to bail out large institutional failures (too-big-to-fail policy), but the Fed may not be a position to help here given the large role of private lenders.
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