How did hatred become so embedded in the political campaigns?
In the 1970’s, Governor Reagan advanced the idea that “taxes should hurt.” The idea, I believe, was that if an individual can notice or feel the pain, he/she will become more knowledgeable. The idea caught on and evolved into the concept that “all taxes are bad.”
In
What went wrong for the Democrats? Were Bernie and the Millennials the cause? Was it that the millennials failed to vote?
Or was it:
Hillary?
The media?
Blacks?
Hispanics?
Low voter turn-out?
3rd party candidates?
Uneducated voters? Idealism?
Well, all of the above!
Hillary is/was a policy wonk, not a salesperson. It was like hiring an accountant to run the marketing department
The media has a vested interest
In the 2000 election Gore vs Bush, idealism reared its head, and the idealists insisted on proving their point. The plea to Ralph Nader and his small constituency went unheeded, and the result was an unnecessary war estimated to have cost us $ 6 trillion and many lives.
Most of the time, but not all the
During the campaign, Trump said he would trash Obamacare. Then, in his meeting with Obama, he said that he liked certain provisions of it and agreed to entertain Obama’s request that two provisions be retained–parents could keep the kids on their policy to age 26, and the current requirement that no one could be denied
During the campaign, Hillary proposed funding $250 billion for infrastructure. Then, Trump raised the ante to $500. Recently, in his meeting with Obama, he was talking in terms of $1 trillion, which is still short of our $17 trillion deficiency.
Trump reiterated a constant democratic issue: if we will simply fund the needs for infrastructure, we
The following includes portions of my Blog of Oct 11,2016
“Dewey beats Truman” is a headline that many of us are aware of. In 1948, Truman was considered to not have a chance. All the polls were against him. His campaign was always broke. On his whistle stop campaign, he literally ran out of money …
