A barely better deal won’t win midterm elections in 2018

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had the New Deal. Lyndon B. Johnson had the War on Poverty and Great Society. Bernie Sanders had (has) the Political Revolution.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have A Better Deal — better than the Republicans’ deal, presumably.

What is most shocking about this so-called ‘Better Deal’ is its embrace of Republican Party trickle-down economics in the form of tax breaks for businesses. Tax breaks do not create jobs nor do they train workers. The problems facing the American worker today arise from the changing structure of American capitalism — the post-industrial revolution — not ‘lack of skills’ or ‘lack of training.’ The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s; are we really to think that job training people is going to change the structural and macroeconomic factors that make Arby’s a larger employer than an entire sector of the old industrial economy?

If Democrats and progressives want to win the 2018 midterm elections, they have to offer something a lot bolder, simpler, and more exciting than a barely better deal. One need not be a fan of a revolutionary socialist Eugene Debs to grasp that the country faces enormous challenges and serious problems that are too big for Clintonian half-way solutions or slightly re-jigged Reaganomics devised by a criminally overpaid consultant class that gets paid regardless of job performance (a perfect example of a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt political system if there ever was one).

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4est_4est_Gump said:

Better ingredients!

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4est_4est_Gump said:

Like the better jobs they got us when they were in charge last?

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4est_4est_Gump said:

Like the better jobs they got us when they were in charge last?

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4est_4est_Gump said:

Their voters want, "Free stuff: free education, free healthcare, free transportation and free border crossings."



That's what will attract the kind of voter that they want to energize...

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4est_4est_Gump said:

That's why they sell their homes for a $1 to the children as an early inheritance and then the government picks up the tab for their stay in a nursing home...

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4est_4est_Gump said:

They'll abandon better for free...

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TalkRadio said:

https://medium.com/@pplswar/a-barely-better-deal-wont-win-midterm-elections-in-2018-c79857261b88

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TalkRadio said:

https://medium.com/@pplswar/a-barely-better-deal-wont-win-midterm-elections-in-2018-c79857261b88

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Comshaw said:

I think you have this ass backwards. If the Republicans want to retain their seats in congress, they need to get busy and do what they promised they would do. They have a majority so have no excuse. Personally I think they've painted themselves into a corner and they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, but that's just my opinion. Whether I'm right or not will be born out in the next couple of congressional elections. Be that as it may, the Republicans in congress need to starting getting things done, one way or the other. And please don't try to tell me it's the Dems fault. For 8 years the Repubs had a united front, now they are falling apart, fracturing into small opposed pieces. They had best get their shit together. If they don't they will be returned to the vocal, impotent minority they were.


Comshaw

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