Let's start making some real arguments for Dems....

[Think. Again.]

I happen to come across the article below from WashingtonMonthly that clearly lays out some the most impressive reasons why 'on-the-fence' voters should recognize the value of voting Blue this November.

With the election drawing near, I feel it's time to begin amplifying any and all solid accomplishments made by Democrats up and down the ballot to pre-emptively counteract all the rightwing B.S. the country is about to be flooded with.

The article I'm highlighting today, written by John E. Schwarz, (professor emeritus of public policy at the University of Arizona, founder and Co-Director of Raise America’s Pay (RAMP), and former distinguished senior fellow at Demos) focuses on the long term economic comparisons between the Democratic Party and rightwingers as these comparisons effect the working class.

The excerpt I chose below speaks to how the lack of awareness of Dem Party successes can cost us voters, but the full article lays out statistics and facts that prove the advantage of Blue election wins.

I encourage you read the entire article at...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/01/democratic-presidents-have-better-economic-performance-than-republican-ones/

...and to share the facts and figures found in the article with people you know who might not be aware of the personal advantages they could gain by voting a Democratic ticket this fall.

I'd like to also encourage you to look for and share other valid sources of undeniably positive reasons that the U.S. should celebrate a massive Blue Wave in November.

Democratic Presidents Have Better Economic Performances than Republican Ones

The facts are clear when it comes to real wage gains or job creation.

by John E. Schwarz March 1, 2024
Full Article: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/01/democratic-presidents-have-better-economic-performance-than-republican-ones/

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By far the hardest and the longest economic recession to hit the country since the time that Reagan came into office was the Great Recession, which started under the second Bush administration (not counting the pandemic-induced recession under Trump that peaked at near-15 percent unemployment). In addition, Republicans have swelled the national debt markedly more over this period than Democrats did. And the stock market has risen significantly more during Democratic than Republican administrations.

Few workers are aware of the immense differences between the parties. Is that because of a stubborn, innate American inability to believe that the more pro-government party could be better at delivering private-sector prosperity than the Republicans, who more gleefully extol business? Or is it the actual rhetoric of each party?

There’s no way to be entirely sure. We do know, however, that Democrats have emphasized their pre-distributionist policies, including the role of such policies in spreading the gains from the economy’s growth to workers, quite a bit less now than Democrats did before the 1980s. One study from the National Bureau for Economic Research finds that Democrats’ diminished emphasis on their pre-distributionist policies and their impact accounts for up to half the number of working Americans with less education who have defected from the Democratic Party.

These workers have been the largest group of voters to turn away from the Democratic Party over the past half-century. If emphasizing pre-distributionist policies and the party’s exceptional wage and job performance relative to Republicans were to bring even a fraction of these working-class Americans back to the Democratic fold, the political change would be seismic–the difference between securing fragile majorities and sustainable governing majorities.

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Full Article: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/01/democratic-presidents-have-better-economic-performance-than-republican-ones/

[Hugin]

1. I was pondering something similar only yesterday...

I believe that instead of speaking of eliminating “trickle down economics”. Which not only seems to acknowledge some sort of acceptance of that as the prevailing system, but leaps directly into the ‘good or bad’ of the conservative’s forty year old ballpark.

Instead the people who want change should talk about their vision of what system they would like to see, rising water floats all boats. Something like “bubble up economics”.

Ignoring getting caught up in the finger trap of discussing the merits of a widely acknowledged failure. Even by many of those who implemented it.

[Think. Again.]

2. Excellent, let's be pro-active from ALL angles....

...let's flood the conversations with positive, indisputable reasons why voting Blue is a no-brainer no matter what any particular point-of-view might respond to.

Why limit ourselves to 'this-or-that' approach?

[Hugin]

3. All the while emphasizing that the Democrats are a party of ideas...

And not a party of personas.

[enough]

4. Along with this, we need to figure out a couple short and effective slogans.

[Think. Again.]

5. Yes! keep trying all of 'em until a few strong ones stick.

[usonian]

6. Consider the alternative.

This is not a prediction. It’s record of GOP policies and actions.
But it’s preventable.

• Government dictates what you read, your religion and your private life. Period trackers mandatory, and report to the government.

• Devastating climate change.

• A deadly war on the rights of women.

• More welfare for the rich.

• Americans pitted against each other along lines of race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income. Vilification of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength, with increasing violence, even murder against them.

• Private health care companies deny needed treatments to save money. (Death panels are here!)

• The wealthy pay even less in taxes.

• Every civil right is eroded by clown judges living in the 18th century rewriting the constitution.

• Worker's rights and benefits reduced in order to create greater profits for businesses.

• Safety nets removed, so that homeless, and jobless people are left to die on the streets.

• More, more, more of culture war.

• GUNS, everywhere, with no limitations or requirements. Kids get them freely.

• Minorities and women blamed for every imaginable blip.

• Support of authoritarian regimes across the globe, who eagerly imprison, "re-educate", murder and commit atrocities on others.

• Lies, hate speech and threats are welcomed on "social media" and given support by government officials.

• Medical care and prescription drug costs skyrocket. (and more ... )

[Think. Again.]

9. That isn't an alternative...

...that is the reality we are living in today after decades of allowing the rightwing to have any power at all.

[usonian]

10. I'd like to turn that around.

I'm all for positive statements. But some (young people? ) are bonkers over one heavily promoted issue, and might need a bit of cold water to consider results over fervor.

It's like a third party. With no candidate. Sitting out is making a choice with consequences, even if those consequences are a continuance of the rot, corruption and dereliction we see today ( in the judicial system, especially) and which will take lots of time and effort to undo.

More Joe!

[Think. Again.]

11. Go Joe!!! 🌊 !!!

[Midnight Writer]

7. Washington Monthly is a national treasure.

Insightful, in-depth, rational reporting on the workings of government.

It only has a few thousand readers and is constantly in peril of "going under", but it is one of the best sources out there for analysis of issues, government policies, and policy-making.

[onecaliberal]

8. K&R