Look at the earlier history of the modern Democratic party. From the 1940’s here up until the age of Reagan. Who was that party?
Dear Congress, Vice-President Biden and his elect Harris, Democrats and strong liberals who live in villages and towns as well as the big cities: this is a reminder of what serious elevation of liberal values and policies bring. Those numbers of people voted in our party year after year because they had benefits they could count on that they did not want removed. Not because of big campaign donations. This is not about winning people over to the BIG D label to be in an exclusive club, but with the party simply as a flagpost for the standards that kind of party. Standards that can make noticable differences in finance and freedom in people’s lives. For decades at a time. So many Democrats at one time. How? Why? How come it’s not reaching conservative lives?
Today we need powerful execution of laws dating back to those times to be rigorously enforced. Antitrust was its name. And helping the poor. We have riches of the world’s wealthiest nation to keep the bottom 90% able to hang on while we restructure away things that keep us from better wages. Once the Corona-virus has retreated, real benefits already must be enjoyed by people, and slashing their private debts to where the average family can pay them off. Republican families too.
Things that could make America excited to give Joe Biden and the Democrats a Senate in 2022 as well. Yet do you realize that violates the laws of recent history? We are slated to do poorly in the midterm election by winning the White House. Perhaps losing a house of congress, or with a deeper deficit in the Senate to Republicans after winning the White House over the last 30 years. Oops. I might I suggest that perhaps failing to win a Senate makes us consider this chart more carefully? That and that we will probably losing ground in state infrastructure. Statehouses. Governor’s mansions. Communities. How do we get back from this to that?
Such an execution of power and the ability for all workers to have ways to organize for better conditions need to be built on New Deals, green and otherwise. In many ways we can also simultaneously re-enact Lyndon Johnson’s successful Great Society. The program ended after 3 years yet continued to ripple through America for years after. Poverty was down to 11% by 1973. There are laws still empowered which should be supercharged by the Administration and prepared for stronger legislation by the House of Representatives when we have the full government under control. To make education affordable and mostly debt free and opportunities wide spread as government jobs.
We need labor, both organized and ad hoc, as a voice of the people directly to government as we did then. Yet which we lack now. But we have new communications tools we all can use. Once again we need an economy based on labor and it’s needs, not on hedge funds. Along with healthcare benefits and the Great Society advancements of education, enforcement of civil rights and labor standards with its war on poverty that’s it in a nutshell. Maybe we can get back to 50% of the country proudly liberal and the even more contained conservative Republicans a party out of power in Washington and eventually most of the states.
But our current leadership suggests that they will not put in place a New Deal. Even while Bernie Sanders and to an extent Elizabeth Warren, although they strongly promoted a Green New Deal, to my mind they did not educate most Americans about what the New Deal truly was. How how much it did for people and stripped the rich and financial institutions of excess resources. To buy up control of government with money out of our pockets. New Deal is still a a black hole of an idea even to many Democrats. If you’re of a socialist persuasion please especially take note.
If we follow procedure from 1933 until the wheels came off under the catalyst of Vietnam. We mush have a Senate in 2 years. Pay attention to lessons not learned. Even after that we still dominated Congress in what was close to a year sweep for liberals. 40 years of liberal executive branch which became more liberal, inclusive, and just while liberalism reigned. Version 2.0 of a New Deal will have more opportunities in this day and age to work more quickly.
Figure out what we’re not doing that they did. Also insist we do not do the things we do now that we fought against then and failed to hold true to. Recreate the chart. Do what they did to win all those inexpensive yet decades long popular victories.