Let's start making some real arguments for Dems.... [View all]

[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/