"Mom, I want a planned economy"
Mom: "We have a planned economy at home"
The planned economy at home:
how do you make a name for yourself as the "plans person"? Like, there is no specific plan she's publicly associated with, just "plans" in general.
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It's just a bourgeois feminist trap. The idea is that she's a smart qualified technocrat. Don't you dare criticize her.
Petition to restart the white women struggle session.
Leslie Knope was supposed to be the parody of this trope, before they forgot what they were writing and just started playing it straight.
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Yeah that show decided "all our characters are to be loveable and kind of real" after like 1 season.
That's every Americam sitcom ever. Even when they try to not do that, they can't help themselves
I'm pretty sure it was a tactic in response to rhetoric from the Clinton campaign in 2016. The whole "Bernie says everyone gets a pony" thing, where Clinton positioned progressive policies as unrealistic and without plans. So Warren is an insufferable nerd and tried to sidestep being called unrealistic, becoming the plans person.
Warren's PR team was very weird
Misread it as Big Booba And Persist originally and was a lot more confused.
Frankly who even is this aimed at, I highly doubt kids are going to read this and honestly I feel like Big Booba and Persist might actually sell better.