2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The 'NEW DEMOCRATS' Meet the New Reality [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Instead of "independent" voters, we have droves and droves of "turned off" voters. Elections don't make any difference in their lives, so why bother?
Kim Kardashian is at least bright and shiny. She at least moves. Some of our Third Way candidates -- dull, dull, dull, stagnating, standing still and holding on to the past for dear life and condescending to boot.
Exciting candidates win. Boring ones lose unless they are in really solid Democratic districts.
The Third Way offers no hope to Americans.
Even if some of our unemployment is due to technological change, most of it is due to our trade policies. Anyone who goes to stores that cater to low-income buyers can see that on the labels of everything they can buy.
We are losing our ability to make things.
Our children do not learn to sew, to knit, to work with wood or even metal -- to make things. And if they don't know how to make things, how are they to create new products or improve the ways that things are made?
Are we to be the food producers and warriors for the new corporate order? Is that the role envisioned for our children and grandchildren? Because we seem headed in that direction.