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