As many of you know I claim to be a conservative so take
this with a grain of salt if you want. And I will get back to posting about the
trip, but the Democrats drive me mad so I try to give them constructive advice,
but they never listen. And if you are wondering, yes the Republicans frustrate
me also mainly because they are not a conservative party right now, not sure
exactly what they are, but true conservative, no not that.
And I am much more conservative than I let on, I would love
to take Musk’s infamous chainsaw to our budget, but I would do it much more
constructively if given the chance. He just did what he did for political show
and wrecked it up and did more harm than good. And I am also a realist, which
is why I propose more center right policies than hard core conservative
policies. If you want to get something done, you have to propose something more
people can get behind, which leads me to my criticisms of the Democrat party.
Yes, I still think they are clueless, but to give positive
criticism here goes.
The Democrats are losing the political battle in both policy
and messaging. If they are not careful, they are going to hand the Republicans
the 2026 midterms. I truly believe that is a real possibility with the current
path they travel. First the entrenched party leadership and elitists still
haven’t figured out why they lost to Donald Trump twice. And it wasn’t because
they ran two women, well Hillary Clinton was going to lose no matter what, but
her campaign was an absolute nightmare of incompetence. Not only is Ms. Clinton
not liked to hated by the majority of this country, her pandering nonsense didn’t
help. Ms. Harris just blew it with policy and messaging. And maybe it was too
late for her to develop her own messaging, but it was the policy and messaging
that killed her campaign, not necessarily her. Well the tone of her voice didn’t
help, but it wasn’t because she is a woman that hurt.
The Democrats lost the blue collar worker decades ago when
they quit fighting for unions with any energy and let corporations and
Republicans run roughshod over the working class. After giving faint hearted
lip service for years the workers got tired of being treated like step children
and moved on. Unfortunately they moved on to our country’s worst instincts with
Trump.
This is one of the Democrat’s major mistakes and that even
took a few years to develop. Trump picked up on that and messaged the hell out
of it. I think the Democrats weren’t paying attention to why Trump was
garnering millions of followers on Twitter around 2010 and onward.
Second reason and I am going to give two examples about
policy ideas that are killing them.
The first is the unions and the working class and education.
Over ten years ago I started posting in this blog that we need to change the
way we look at education and to encourage some people going to trade schools.
Looking back I think that post was already over ten years too late. Apparently
some countries in Europe had already been working with this thinking and have a
better handle on improving their working class because of it. They may need to
do more work, but they are definitely way ahead of us. Not only did the
Democrats fail to realize college isn’t for everyone, they looked down on people
who didn’t attend college. So, they ignored a problem then exacerbated it.
And the irony now is careers that involve trade school such
as auto mechanic, plumbing, HVAC installation and repair, electricians, even installing
solar panels (I do think we need to move forward with energy), construction,
and more are not as affected by AI as some other careers are now. And these
industries or careers aren’t hyped by the Democrat party and yet these jobs if
given proper due and proper economic importance would have benefited this
country greatly. So instead of forcing college on everyone and yes it is good,
but the student debt problem, the lack of employable college graduates and AI
suggests the Democrats missed the boat to help out the working class years ago.
And then in 2024 they still missed it. Do you hear the Democrats talk about
making the trades a great way to earn a living and also fight for these same
trades to earn good money. Just like when the Democrats worked with the unions,
they should work with these industries and the unions to rebuild the working
class into a viable economic force. Maybe it is me, but I am not hearing this
too loud.
And also much to everyone’s ignorance in 2025 apparently the
Republicans have forgotten the working and middle class do more to improve the
markets than billionaires. Billionaires tend to hoard wealth, not put it back
in the economy. Our country is strong when we have a viable working and middle
class. And the ignorance lies in the Republicans forgetting that in a market
driven economy, you need people participating in the markets for it to grow.
You start excluding people and eventually your economy collapses. So the
Republicans may call themselves champions of the free market, but currently
that is just a hyperbolic farse.
The second example is in regards to social programs,
benefits and actually helping the people that need help. Right wing echo
chambers love to say, why do we give people food stamps, they are abusing the system
and they are all fat. They argue why do fat people need free food. Don’t believe
me, then go out and read their posts etc. They love saying this to argue why we
should get rid of food stamps. And I may lose some of you here, but work your
way through this. Sec of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr is addressing this problem. And
no he isn’t solving food stamps, but indirectly the failure of food stamps.
The reason many food stamp recipients are overweight is
because they eat processed foods with no nutritional value. Why, because it is
less expensive. So RFK, Jr saying we need to look at what we eat is correct. We,
as a society, need to eat better or healthy. Democrats in their clueless ivory
towers try to say something similar, yet they look down at everyone for not
eating correctly and do nothing to rid us of the agricorporations that profit from
this country eating crap. So to go back to food stamps, we should trim the bureaucracy
around it, increase the actual amount given to food stamp recipients and say
you can only buy certain foods with food stamps. Basically put more money in
people’s hands and require them to use it wisely. You save money in the long
run because we have less obesity in the country, which saves on medical costs
including Medicaid without taking either benefit from people. Also as part of
many of my posts to reduce the deficit, trimming the actual bureaucracy can
more than make up for the up tick in benefits given.
Do you hear this messaging from the Democrats? Is it loud
enough? No they currently think they should move more to the left and in doing
so continue to lecture us on why we fail. We aren’t failing. They are because
they cannot see the writing on the wall. Socialism does not work. Do we have a
problem with the wealth gap in this country and is it hurting us? Yes, but
their answers are only lectures and socialism. Again a strong working and middle
class will do more for our economy than billionaires, but that takes making the
them stronger, not taking it away with pie in the sky economic engineering.
You hear so much in the last week how the Democrats need to
listen to the mayoral candidate that won the Democratic primary in New York
City. They follow that path, they doom themselves to the history books. And if
they do that there may not be any history books of consequences if the current Republicans
get their way.
We need a strong two or multi party system. Both current
major parties are failing the country by refusing to understand what made this
country great in the first place. For now I am giving my advice to the
Democrats and I am giving it to them is because we desperately need to balance
out the power structure in 2026 or we may be in trouble. What bothers me though
is they keep touting the same message or even worse moving further to the left
that has doomed them politically for the last ten or fifteen years. They don’t
want to listen. I talk to various people all the time and the madness of the
Democratic faithful is just as bad a problem as the MAGA madness, just a
different direction.
So when I talk about a new center right party and would
definitely prefer that over the current Democrats, I hope you see why, but for
now there is no traction on a new party, I would at least hope the Democrats
for political survival would see the writing on the wall and rethink their
policies and messaging to attract more people.
Or everyone, lets get to work on a new party and getting
some practical public policy passed that benefits the vast majority of this
country.
Cheers
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