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Bradley talked every day back then about the landmark tax 2021-12-03 8 - politics
The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating 2021-12-01 6 - politics
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What's a Democrat? 2021-11-07 12 - 1 politics
Just when you think politics couldn't POSSIBLY get any 2021-10-29 8 - 1 politics
The base or the swing? 2021-10-27 12 - 1 politics
The politically-aware-and-active class understands the 2021-10-21 6 - politics
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Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. 2021-02-10 18 - 1 politics

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What should be the Democratic program of the future?

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html

1) build for the future - inexpensive child care, medical
care, and education through community college for everybody
too young to vote.

2) honor the past - inexpensive medical care and survival
for everybody too old or disabled to work.

3) protect the present - with guaranteed basic income
support for every adult who supports democracy by voting.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html

4) all paid for by a transparent flat tax on all income.

 https://www.one-flat-tax.net/

Focus on these which points have enough universal appeal
to voters that they might possibly overcome the tremendous
campaign finance advantage that the ruling class deploys
to prevent change.   Focus on smaller divisive issues
risks confusing culture wars funded by the ruling class.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html

And get ready for regional federalism if the ruling
class wins.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html

#PS1politics

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html

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Unclear on the concept!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/shutdown-looms-donna-edwards/

Unending drama and last-minute rescues are essentials
of reality-TV.     Most voters SAY they want Congress to
DO something about their problems, but they keep electing
reality-TV drama queens and kings whose greatest aspiration
is to get on Fox.    Cable TV is bad enough, but social
media are just making the obsession with celebrity worse.

Leading by example, these influencers lead very ordinary
people to obtain celebrity the only way they know how -
by getting a gun and using it.

And of course, numerous foreign entities have an interest
in fanning divisiveness and dysfunction in American
politics.        They can do so with discreetly laundered
campaign contributions and discreetly disguised social
media echobots.    Or with traditional media like OAN.

#PS1politics

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Bradley talked every day back then about the landmark tax
reform law he’d written and his plan to rid politics of
corrosive corporate money.

Two absolutely vital fundamental issues in which most
voters have no knowledge and no interest beyond how will
it affect me right now, and in which almost no legislators
or candidates are eager to enlighten voters about how you
actually get the money to actually get elected to Congress.

wisdom and narcissism can’t coexist. The more you
obsess about yourself, the less you’re learning about
everyone else.

It was good Bradley got out with his mind and honor intact.
Things have gone downhill faster than anybody would have
predicted.  Reality-TV is not reality.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/bill-bradley-reticent-politician-takes-stage-reminds-what-we-lose-by-choosing-celebrities/

#PS1politics

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The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating
opposition.     And if you don't, you'll get opposed for
doing nothing.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html

The Reagan-Biden analogy -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/biden-reagan-approval.html

All good presidents have been extremely unpopular with
significant numbers of voters during their terms -
including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, and
Grant, to name some whose portraits are now on our money.

Antitrust enforcement, social security, armed forces
integration, medicare, voting and civil rights legislation,
ACA  - all bitterly opposed at the time - are why we
remember Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, LBJ, and Obama
as great leaders despite their faults.

#PS1politics

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title "Opinion | The Ronald Reagan Guide to Joe Biden’s Political Future"
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In churches with congregational polity, confronting
a polarizing issue and resolving it, no matter how,
usually means losing a pastor and a good many members.
But the congregation is better off to have excised the
thorn in its flesh.

It's no different in national politics.       Any leader
that gets significant change enacted can expect to
be punished in the next election by the people that
didn't like the change.      But later history remembers
positively the leaders that effected positive change no
matter the cost at the time.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html

Antitrust enforcement, social security, armed forces
integration, medicare, voting and civil rights legislation,
ACA  - all bitterly opposed at the time - are why we
remember Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, LBJ, and Obama
as great leaders despite their faults.

#PS1politics

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What's a Democrat?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-biden-virginia-new-jersey-infrastructure/2021/11/07/d5811f7e-3e43-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html

Thanks to Trump, the answer is easy.    Democrats are
the fact-based party; the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the
fantasy-based party.

The two pillars of Democratic fact-based politics should
be political democracy and economic democracy.

Agreeing on facts does not imply agreeing on solutions,
so there are factions.       But the fact-based need to
work together until the fantasy-based get back to earth.

#PS1politics

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Just when you think politics couldn't POSSIBLY get any
crazier - a guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC
outside a post office today, with posters saying Trump
can't do it by himself!

You remember the late Lyndon LaRouche, right?  A perpetual
presidential candidate, in sui generis -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche

Evidently he still has committed followers and a PAC!

 https://www.larouchepac.com/

Presumably these are the same followers who proselytized
for him in Sproul Plaza in the 1970's.

It's doubtful that Trump would disown any supporters no
matter how crazy.

#PS1politics

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The base or the swing?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/campaigning-middle-out-wont-save-democrats/

There are two possible paths to winning close elections -
maximizing turnout of the base and influencing persuadable
swing voters.   The ideal is to do both, but that is
seldom possible, because ideological and non-ideological
voters think differently and decide differently.   The best
approach to one group is often fatal for the other.

So politicians try to weasel-word their way into appealing
to both groups.      That['s why it's so hard to get a
comprehensible answer to the simplest questions.

So Democrats divide on whether to cater toward the middle
or toward the edge.      But what's certain is that if
nothing significant is passed, the base will be discouraged
and the persuadables will be uninterested.

So what's the best POSSIBLE outcome here?   Politics is
the art of the possible.      Soon we should see whether
Biden, or any other Democrat, is a master of politics -
determing what's possible and realizing it.

GOP has a simpler task.     They say as little as possible
about the legislation they intend to actually pass, mostly
relief for suffering billionaires to fortify minority rule
by a hereditary nobility.      Instead they stoke culture
wars that they hope will inflame their base and appeal
to persuadables.       Their challenge is to somehow
manage Trump to fire up the base without repelling the
persuadables.

#PS1politics

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The politically-aware-and-active class understands the
policies and issues and votes accordingly, usually on a
partisan basis.

But, as usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely
up to persuadable swing voters in swing states, who don't
follows policies and issues and just vote their pocketbooks
for or against the party in power.

The Trump base will vote GOP anyway - or else not at all.
Thus the primary GOP strategy is to wreck the economy as
much as possible, and blame it on the Democrats.

 https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-elections-house-elections-congress-5ac0ececeadbb46895e67b48db5bbcf7

#PS1politics

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Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives
to define themselves.       They used to be Republicans,
but they've been left behind by Trumpism.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html

How are these Renewers

 https://www.renewamericamovement.com/

different from their predecessors -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

Is there a significant voter base and donor base for
traditional conservative values?     It's hard to see.
Most GOP voters and major donors seem to have come to
terms with supporting cult of personality as a strategy to
support minority rule, whether Trump or one of his bolder
and abler would-be successors.     It's not just Trump
that's the problem; it's Trumpism and its whole-hearted
embrace of lie-cheat-steal-fantasy in repudiation of the
rational Enlightenment values of America's founders.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html

Still, though one would like to think that a
progressive-conservative party is possible, it doesn't
stand much chance against the entrenched two-party system,
nor much chance against the two established parties.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

What about an independent caucus within the Democratic
House and Senate caucuses, corresponding to a campaign
coalition to knock out vulnerable Trumpists?

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1408449849499530

#PS1politics

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html

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Time for a new caucus, if not a new party.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/what-if-republicans-actually-listened/

It's no longer Republicans vs Democrats; it's fantasy vs
fact, and noisy public performance vs quiet productive
legislating.   The fantasists are doing their best to get
the factuals out of the GOP -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-loyalty-trump/2021/02/10/f3f87e4c-6bc2-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html

Perhaps the Republican legislators that don't want to
be part of the Trump-Republican Party can form their
own caucus and organize with the Democrats for a while.
King and Sanders are independents  but they caucus with
Democrats.    Republicans should be welcome if their goal
were to solve problems rather than blind obstruction.
Ideological litmus tests are not key - if they're as
conservative as Joe Manchin they can make a positive
contribution.    There are a lot of ideas in the Democratic
Party today, and no cult of personality.

 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

Long term, perhaps a new party will arise

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/11/gop-meeting-new-party-trump/

as the Trump Republicans complete the cycle by following
their Whig progenitors into irrelevance.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Collapse,_1853%E2%80%931856

#PS1politics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/what-if-republicans-actually-listened/

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