The Changes in America Favor Progressives - Another excerpt from "...and Call it Capitalism"
Excerpt of PART II. CHAPTER 3. PARTIES AND POLITICS IN AMERICA: THE CHANGES IN AMERICA FAVOR PROGRESSIVES from Dan Riker's Let's Do What Works and Call it Capitalism.
“(T)he size of the minority population is expected to increase to the point that they represent the numeric majority between 2040 and 2050.”
- US. Census Bureau Population Projections, 2009[1]
"All politics is local."
- Attributed to Tip O'Neill (D-MA), former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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E)very midterm for the last two decades has been inexorably nationalized. Including this one [2010]. … You would hope that by the next midterm O’Neill’s aphorism will be so obviously wrong that even highly paid political analysts won’t trot him out, even to disagree."
- Mickey Kaus, Newsweek, quoted by Andrew Gelman "All Politics is Local? The Debate and the Graphs," http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com. Jan. 3, 2011.
While change in Washington comes very slowly, the nation itself is going through a period of rapid change. We are not the nation of the World War II generation anymore. The country's population has more than doubled since 1945. At 313 million in mid 2012 – nearly 100 times larger than the population of the first census in 1790 - the United States is the third most populous country in the world after China and India.
Read the entire chapter at http://progressiveamericanthought.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-changes-in-america-
Also at http://danriker.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-changes-in-america-favor.html
and at http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Dan%20Riker/
