Tim Walz Doesn't Know What a Venture Capitalist Does

And he wants to make our economic decisions for us.

I try to rise above calling some out an outright moron, but Tim Walz makes it very hard when he says things like this:

You don’t have to be a Wall Street whiz to understand basic economic activity, but that isn’t the issue here. The issue is that the Harris/Walz ticket believes that in order to sound like the everyman, to appeal to the everyman, you have to be an unambitious, economically illiterate moron.

Walz has said previously that he owns no property, no stock, and I’m not actually sure he can define “unrealized gains” but he wants to tax them anyway — and he wants the second-highest elected office in the land to help make all of these decisions for you and your family. You’re realer if you’re unremarkable in terms of savings or accomplishments. Crediting a person for their hard work means there is less glory for the government and if there is one thing a big government requires it’s glory. For instance, if too many people believe in upward economic mobility then they might start believing that they can lift themselves into a higher economic status through sheer hard work, without the nannying of the government. This is frowned upon because it lessens the stature of the government and shows the true limit of its power. Big government ideology creates a reverse aristocracy wherein the government creates vassals dependent upon federal entitlements and any effort to change one’s status oneself is gauche.

You see it whenever Walz mocked J.D. Vance for going to Harvard. Say what you want of Vance, but he overcame growing up a statistic and propelled himself into a higher life station through determination and hard work. Walz holds Vance’s successes against him, remarking frequently on the campaign trail that he didn’t go to Harvard (he went to China), thus he is more down to earth and capable of representing average Americans — in every way except ambition. Americans are an ambitious bunch, even the average everyday ones, be they born here or legally immigrated, it’s a hallmark of being American.

Upward mobility used to be a shared trait of both the right and left until the left determined that keeping poor people poor by robbing them of incentive and ambition was a great way to control them. “Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country” turned into $20k to buy a house, loans based on race, and taxpayer-funded gender surgeries.

The left is OK with Harvard, of course, when its one of their own Harvard grads on stage at the DNC, with the caveat that said grad extols the blessings of big government. The Bill Gateses of the world are fine so long as they stick to the script. Renegades like Elon Musk are public enemies because they don’t.

Neither Harris nor Walz understand that they people they cosplay for in flannel and camouflage are farmers, small business folks, factory folks, people for whom inventiveness is an art form thanks to the Biden-Harris economy. They want to achieve like Vance, not stew in mediocrity like Walz. Someone who has achieved it for themselves is a more appealing candidate than someone who hasn’t, refuses to, and looks down on those who succeed. It’s why this shtick isn’t working and Harris is slipping further and further from Trump in the polls.

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