This is important:
At Columbia University in New York this weekend the Progressive Policy Institute, which helped Bill Clinton and Tony Blair pioneer so-called third way politics in the 1990s, held a closed-door strategy session for congressional staffers that was designed to find ways of promoting growth.
“There is no question that the prevailing temper of the Democratic party is populist: strongly sceptical of what we like to call capitalism and angry about the perceived power of the monied elite in politics,” says PPI president and founder Will Marshall.
“But inequality is not the biggest problem we face: it is symptomatic of the biggest problem we face, which is slow growth.”
Al From, a leading figure of the centre left who chaired the Democratic Leadership Council during the first Clinton presidency, argues that a focus on inequality, though understandable after the banking crash, risks driving all candidates too far from policies that would promote growth.
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I hate them with unbridled
I hate them with unbridled passion.
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(in reply to AnonymousPersonLikeThing)
This. ^^^
(in reply to AnonymousPersonLikeThing)
This. ^^^
Mr. Marshall lost me at
"perceived".
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WSJ
Teddy Roosevelt's message was
(in reply to Stick)
Teddy Roosevelt's message was a losing one?
Okay then.
All the war mongering without
(in reply to Average Guy)
All the war mongering without the trust busting? Yep. That's 'progressive'.
Not to mention some tortured
(in reply to Average Guy)
Not to mention some tortured history.
Advice from those two
Clinton signed the legislation that repealed Glass Stegall and Blair the WMD debacle. I am skeptical of both.
New Democrats my eye. Blue
New Democrats my eye. Blue dogs have been around a long time. This is why I prefer the label of socialist.
"what we like to call
"what we like to call capitalism"
??
Organize
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capitalist growth is not socialist growth
They are half right but the growth we need is to serve the needs of people, not shareholders.
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(in reply to yellowdog)
This. Thank-you.
They have it backwards, the
They have it backwards, the best way to promote economic growth is to curb inequality. The "New Democrats" are impotent, that movement is going nowhere.
Student Debt
Will be the chief economic issue from 2018-2030.
One of them anyway.
(in reply to reform4)
We are also going to have to deal with wage inequity. The minimum wage raise is a start, but people in the next generation are going to have to figure out how to quantify their worth. With the way things are done these days, that's not always easy.
Really though, it's two sides of the same coin.
Progressive
Could this be why Clinton called herself progressive in the first debate? This has gotten confusing, what with republicans calling themselves neoliberal .