As you know one of my biggest complaints about the Democrats
is their lack of cohesive policy development. Today I read an article about a policy
and a platform the Democrats are putting together for 2020.
They are trying. My issue for them is how progressive it is
becoming. The majority in this country is moderate to moderately conservative.
The farther to the left they drift the more they lose the exact people they
need to win in 2020. Yes, they will attract some young voters, but that won’t
be enough to win.
I suggest you find it and read it for yourself. I didn’t
make a note of the website where I saw the story so I cannot help you there. I
admit it had more going for it than I thought it might when I first say the
headline. In my opinion it moves the party more to the left. I hope you find it
so you can make your own determination
The Democrats did include one idea to help many people. The
overall idea allows the post office to offer banking services which would
hopefully bring many low income people back to basic banking services. There
will be many services all with low fees. This includes offering short term
loans to replace payday loans
I do like part of this idea. I am very against payday loans
and what they are doing to many people in this country. For example and I have
to be careful. I do not like giving away too much information about myself for
many reasons, one being I would prefer the reader focus on my ideas and not me.
This example comes from my work so I am minimalizing the details to stay anonymous.
Imagine a care giver for a person using the ID of the person they are responsible
for to obtain multiple payday loans for someone. Yes, the person needs a
caregiver, but does have a job. The person can maintain it and has for years.
The caregiver ran up quite a few payday loans putting this person in heavy
debt. All this person’s hard work was going for naught. It is a very sad
situation. And the payday loans themselves are a sad entity preying on poor people.
I did not complete the article. Of the majority of it I
read, this was by far the one idea even responsible moderates and conservatives
could support. There were other topics
and yes Medicare for all was one and there was some alternate options behind
this discussed in the article.
And I saw this after making some notes myself about updating
my own policy platform. I wrote a very extensive and verbose platform for 2012
for my desired fictious new major party. Since then I have added policy ideas
and fixes to problems. My goal this week is to update the platform (hopefully a
bit more succinct than I am normally) and with one high priority item at the
top of the list. I have never treated campaign reform as a top of the list
item, yet more so than ever I think we need to find a way to get money out of
politics. Maybe a tall task. It must be done. And you are going to see I am
going to make it harder to accomplish with my plan of action to get it done. I
feel though this will over turn decades of bad decisions and hopefully restart
us in a more positive direction.
Finally, I did want to remind you of the organization Unite
America. It is making some progress with their goal of getting independents
elected. If interested, please catch up to their work. As you know I am an
independent conservative, yet to get real policy developed I believe you do need
a working coordinated program and platform that a party is able to accomplish. You
need the numbers in Congress and State legislations to pass your program. I
hope you help me in making sure it puts the people first.
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