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Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
4. SOme kind of WPA
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:55 PM
Sep 2020

FDR put people back to work on infrastructure.

Infrastructure.

Retrofitting for the future with COVID, and whatever other viruses emerge. This is not a one and done.

Health care detached from jobs in a medicare for all or expanded medicaid, so that wages aren't going into health care.

Focus on working people, those who depend on their salaries and wages, and tax the shit out of the investor class.

Maybe teach some basic economics, too....

Deprogramming? TwilightZone Sep 2020 #1
Cons are self-effecting, out for themselves. Need to expose how they are being played as fools. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #46
I'm not sure they're capable of that level of self-awareness. TwilightZone Sep 2020 #47
Push for national legal cannabis. JoeOtterbein Sep 2020 #2
Beat me to it. Great minds etc. Walleye Sep 2020 #8
LOL! JoeOtterbein Sep 2020 #13
and wrap that message in freedom and less government regulation in the industry! Let the GOP defend In It to Win It Sep 2020 #66
Campaign on legalizing weed Walleye Sep 2020 #3
SOme kind of WPA Claire Oh Nette Sep 2020 #4
Make them all Incels if they keep that shit up, including the married ones. n/t rzemanfl Sep 2020 #5
I was going to suggest Leith Sep 2020 #14
That was all men if I recall correctly. Why punish Dems? n/t rzemanfl Sep 2020 #15
Better education. Less evangelicalism. Total debunking of white and or male supremacy. nt Progressive Jones Sep 2020 #6
Ding ding ding! -------- a generations-long endeavor! UTUSN Sep 2020 #31
Go back to the twenties and embrace the KKK. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #7
Let them obnoxiousdrunk Sep 2020 #9
saltpeter nt Wicked Blue Sep 2020 #10
Challenge Trump to a pushup contest jorgevlorgan Sep 2020 #11
As long as Democrats are seen as the party of you know who... czarjak Sep 2020 #12
Free year long supply of little blue pills. BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #16
We could be racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist and xenophobic but Lunabell Sep 2020 #17
I think you got it - and I thought it was just in Texas..... walkingman Sep 2020 #22
Free beer, more football, and more NASCAR. Nitram Sep 2020 #18
Reverse the devastation of unions Sympthsical Sep 2020 #19
Why ? We villainize Cubans that vote republican, We villianize black people that vote Republican, JI7 Sep 2020 #29
Maybe not villainize anyone? Sympthsical Sep 2020 #32
If they aren't racist then they are Misogynist , Anti gay or some other kind of Bigot JI7 Sep 2020 #33
I'm not doing both sides Sympthsical Sep 2020 #37
Part of it is because of what the OP has said in similar threads JI7 Sep 2020 #39
Abandon gun control Klaralven Sep 2020 #20
abandon gun control Elmer1007 Sep 2020 #54
The voters obsessed with guns are already programmed to vote Rethug RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #59
Hire Fox News-styled fembots to work as spokesmodels? Mister Ed Sep 2020 #21
Some of them we'll never get and we don't want Withywindle Sep 2020 #23
We need to pitch a 'liberal' white identity politics. radius777 Sep 2020 #24
Unfortunately, some people aren't "dangerous" until they are and then it is too late. CTyankee Sep 2020 #44
Get Rid of Civil Rights, Get Rid of Women's Right to Vote. Maybe even Bring back Slavery JI7 Sep 2020 #25
+1 betsuni Sep 2020 #60
Become the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and Jefferson Davis JI7 Sep 2020 #26
I got it! SlogginThroughIt Sep 2020 #27
Free Pick Up Trucks for every white male who votes Democratic !! Captain Zero Sep 2020 #45
Ha! SlogginThroughIt Sep 2020 #50
Attack conservatism Awsi Dooger Sep 2020 #28
Electroshock therapy. milestogo Sep 2020 #30
Investment in community colleges. Education is the key. nt oasis Sep 2020 #34
Buy up all conservative media assets. Own the messaging platforms. UCmeNdc Sep 2020 #35
Democratic Party really needs to focus more on bringing back jobs and prosperity ansible Sep 2020 #36
+1 appalachiablue Sep 2020 #40
Biden will do much better rufus dog Sep 2020 #38
Franken did it to himself. The "friggen joke" was SharonClark Sep 2020 #41
thus the poor numbers in the white male vote rufus dog Sep 2020 #42
I never seen "purity" used in good faith JonLP24 Sep 2020 #53
Politically motivated RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #58
It was a joke the woman didn't care about.... RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #56
Work on the ones you know. Wait for the old ones to die. meadowlander Sep 2020 #43
Stop advocating so much for women and minorities. dawg Sep 2020 #48
Your last sentence treestar Sep 2020 #57
Be racist, attack BLM, say ALM, and stop supporting women's rights and gun-control Polybius Sep 2020 #49
I'm a white male JonLP24 Sep 2020 #51
Start by getting rid of Fox News and RW hate radio. crickets Sep 2020 #52
From those stats, get Carter to talk to them treestar Sep 2020 #55
Carter knew how to appeal to George Wallace voters JonLP24 Sep 2020 #61
Free beer? lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #62
It'd be easier to work at getting a majority of the white female vote. Kaleva Sep 2020 #63
The problem is that most of the older ones Bettie Sep 2020 #64
Engaging in one's own allegedly sincere discussions is one method. LanternWaste Sep 2020 #65
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