Reply #43: We understand "broke," oh yes. [View All]

Even the hard-core Republican voters here admit that everybody had a job when Clinton was in office... :evilgrin:

Even if they have no idea how it all really works, the bottom line of Economics is something they all understand intuitively: whether they have job or not, and whether they and their children are broke & suffering or not.

That's a potentially decisive wedge if a smart (and brave) enough candidate can show them how Republican administrations force conditions that leave the little people screwed.

They know times get tough during Republican administrations but 1) they do not have time to connect the dots of motivations to policies to actions with that Republican administration because they are struggling to survive, and 2) they are told early on that the coming nightmare is the last Democrat's fault because they looted the treasury to bribe black voters with welfare programs, and this effectively kills investigation into why things are truly worse.

I do feel that a Progressive Economic agenda is paramount. In it's absence, grand welfare programs are necessary because the real people are not doing well - poverty skyrockets.

A Progressive Economic agenda should, for one, include massive funding for rebuilding and reconstituting our educational institutions while kicking beaurocrat status quo administrators out on their asses. Massive public works rebuilding our decrepit infrastructure would give everyone a sustainable job while education catches up enough to stimulate technological innovation that is now drowning.

It seems to me this was successfully executed before, called the "New Deal" yes? Shame that World War hijacked that progress...

Sometimes the tinfoil-hat-wearing dude in me suspects it wasn't an accident, especially when I read about Bush-type families, big Corporations like IBM, and World Banking powers colluding with the likes of Hitler up to and after all these wars. :tinfoilhat: