I like that, however, as a former presidential candidate once said, “What’s under the hood”? If anyone at BMG would like to help me out on this, I’d be grateful to know. I can’t seem to find out where the money goes. Does the $10,000,000,000 go to the company owners, the corporations, the .1% in the hope that some of it might trickle down to the masses? Or, does a larger chunk of change go to the workers, something that our founders would have done?
If it goes to the .1%, well, I would not be surprised. However, if the riches indeed go to the ordinary workers, my image of the secretary might be improved.
Please share widely!
The proposal hasn’t been released yet. [edited to remove a rules violation. -ed.]
A simple “the proposal has not been released” would be nice. Nope, instead you go after me. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
You’ve harped on Clinton for not taking manufacturing seriously, indeed single-handedly destroying it would seem to be your view based on her alleged, but not entirely accurate, support for free trade. When she does come up with a plan for manufacturing you assume the worst:(
I simply want to see it.
That’s visionary, and actually achievable. I am looking forward to getting the details on this one. She also signed off on the Brookings 2015 Middle Class agenda. She can be a progressive on domestic policy, she just has to get comfortable using the language of the American class struggle.
Eg. I know you are hurting and I know we haven’t done enough, here’s what we will do
It’s still upbeat, it’s still not blaming others or pointing the fingers at minorities like Trump. There is a good way to do populism and Warren and Sanders have tapped into that, Hillary should as well.
He did pretty well with “I feel your pain.” I’m still a little nervous about how well the rhetoric of “class struggle” will play in this country.
Ask Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. Neither may win their nomination, but they got this far bucking the conventional wisdom on trade, entitlement reform, and the perceived benefits of globalization and creative destruction. They have broken many bipartisan shibboleths on the way there. That’s where the comparison between them and the similar voter they appeal makes sense.
Trump is also openly racist and hostile to an integrated multicultural America, it’s a big part of his appeal and can’t be understated and it’s a dark side of populism Sanders to his credit has denounced and certainly has not engaged in.
While I am confident that Trump will crash and burn when he has to face the entire electorate, I am likewise concerned that Sanders will suffer an onslaught of everything up to and including outright Red-baiting when he does.
I don’t disagree with either trend line, I am simply saying the old DLC adage that “class warfare doesn’t play well” no longer applies. If the Clintons think 2016 is 1996 they will lose. The country has moved decisively in a populist direction on economics and is solidly culturally liberal now. No longer any need to frame everything through a centrist lens.
Fighters are resonating more than conciliators and she is actually well positioned to be a fighter herself. Her 2008 campaign was a lot more hawkish and populist than hers has been so far, and both would play better with the electorate than what she is doing.
Yeah, Trump will crash and burn when facing the entire electorate. Reminds me of how I feel whenever I step foot in a Walmart. The place smells. Their quality and selection is third rate at best. There is no customer service. The employees all look depressed….and I think, this place can’t possibly stay in business. And they are the nation’s largest private employer and our largest retailer.
or does that criticism only apply to Bernie Sanders?
One of the early difficulties in the U.S. was that the federal government was very reluctant to make any investments at all. This resistance to investment extended from Thomas Jefferson to the anti-Whig positions of Jackson Democrats. The objection was that investing in one sector of the economy would be unfair to all the other sectors — kind of like everything had to even Steven. For example, it is like saying in our world that investment in transportation infrastructure is unfair to the pharmaceutical industry because it isn’t being invested in too. Transportation really was a problem, by the way. A big percentage of agricultural land was too far from the coasts and navigable rivers to be much use.
This, by the way, was one of the changes Lincoln brought about — and then, in the Gilded Age, it went way overboard with all sorts of special favors and dispensations offered up to the railroads.