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Re: POTUS 45.29: Eggs and Tweet Storms for Breakfast
Dukakis campaigned as a technocrat.
Fair point on Mondale. He was a principled liberal and is the last Dem nominee to campaign for president as a genuine liberal. He got destroyed because Saint Ronnie's debt and inevitable crash hadn't caught up to the US voter yet, but he summed up the shell game perfectly in words that should be carved on the Treasury building: if you write a trillion dollars in hot checks you can create a brief "recovery" too. He also lost because he said, "both he and I will raise your taxes. He won't tell you that, I just did." Reagan won and then raised taxes a dozen times to back the country partly out of the disaster his cuts had led it into. We've still never recovered from The Heist of lowering the top rates, and ever since the wealthy have only gotten morbidly obese and sucked the middle class dry of its wealth and political power.
Mondale's loss enabled the Goldmancrats to take over the party. They bring it up as the boogeyman that we can't have nice things and ever since Boomers have been cowed and always buckle. But the kids aren't Boomers and they aren't fooled. They can see what Dems merely holding the line while the GOP hurtles us towards fascism has done to this country. They know we have to push back hard and essentially repeal the last 40 years of bullsh-t fiscal policy. That means a lot of bankers and brokers are going to have a sad, and Rover does not like that, but it's the only way to restore the middle class.
Dukakis campaigned as a technocrat.
Fair point on Mondale. He was a principled liberal and is the last Dem nominee to campaign for president as a genuine liberal. He got destroyed because Saint Ronnie's debt and inevitable crash hadn't caught up to the US voter yet, but he summed up the shell game perfectly in words that should be carved on the Treasury building: if you write a trillion dollars in hot checks you can create a brief "recovery" too. He also lost because he said, "both he and I will raise your taxes. He won't tell you that, I just did." Reagan won and then raised taxes a dozen times to back the country partly out of the disaster his cuts had led it into. We've still never recovered from The Heist of lowering the top rates, and ever since the wealthy have only gotten morbidly obese and sucked the middle class dry of its wealth and political power.
Mondale's loss enabled the Goldmancrats to take over the party. They bring it up as the boogeyman that we can't have nice things and ever since Boomers have been cowed and always buckle. But the kids aren't Boomers and they aren't fooled. They can see what Dems merely holding the line while the GOP hurtles us towards fascism has done to this country. They know we have to push back hard and essentially repeal the last 40 years of bullsh-t fiscal policy. That means a lot of bankers and brokers are going to have a sad, and Rover does not like that, but it's the only way to restore the middle class.
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