Instead, almost all Americans ranging from the guy begging by the off ramp with an “I’ll work for food” sign to Bill Gates think of themselves as “middle class.” Indeed, almost all American workers consider themselves middle class.
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Just 33% of Democrats said they will vote for Biden. Meanwhile, several candidates promising radical change attracted the support of 57% of the Democrats Emerson polled.
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Yang is making the most effective and damning critique of American capitalism presented in generations and people are listening.
Yang realized entrepreneurship; and by implication capitalism, technology, and progress, could not solve America’s problems.
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Ironically, instead of saving conservatism Tucker Carlson could be the harbinger of whatever political thought replaces neoliberalism as our national ideology. Along the way, Carlson could be the man who destroys what’s left of conservatism by showing conservatives how naked their Emperor is.
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There are advantages to a brutal primary battle. First, winning a primary proves a candidate is a vote getter and tough enough for the big race in the Fall. Second, primary winners get experience campaigning and winning. Finally, primary winners are familiar to voters and the media.
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“If we do nothing in the next 12 years, 40% of middle-class older workers will be poor and near poor elders,” New School Economics Professor Teresa Ghilarducci writes.
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Essentially, average Americans view the establishments of both parties, academia, the media, and much of the business community as hopelessly corrupt. Not surprisingly they only listen to political figures they view as outside the establishment.
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Thus, Polk succeeded because he had a realistic opinion of American military power and its limits. Unlike presidents Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas); Madison, and George W. Bush (R-Texas) Polk knew America is not invincible and can lose wars.
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Basically, Republican leaders want to offer Conservative Christians a stark choice next year. Either vote for Trump and Life, or see abortion continue and possibly expand.
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The shoddy spectacle of hypocrisy and corruption destroying Evangelicals; and their institutions, will change American politics. In fact, two news
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