A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester. Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power. Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines. Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians (aka D.E.I.). Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights. Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration. Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live. Dump camping in cities and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice. Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook.
Do all of the above and they might find their way back to power.
Let’s try to keep comments to the specific topic of the article. The topic is about important policy differences between New Deal Democrats (1932-1965) and Liberal Democrats (1980-2010).
I was either too young or too ignorant to recognize that most of this was happening as you have laid it out. Sort of a "walk down memory lane" for me. Good to re-establish that perspective.
Plus of course some folks had a mix of views between these poles (or pols).
Sometimes you can be living through some historical period and just be so busy with "life" that these larger views or impacts just don't register. Even when you agree with one agenda within a coalition, you may still disagree on other aspects. Plus the "victors" generally write the near contemporary history, perhaps in the first 30 to 50 years? Only after that can we start to expect real objective and neutral assessments, with less personal investment by the historians [but with many remaining exceptions]. Then also hope that the primary sources/ resources are not lost over time.
I suppose in the future you will do a companion piece on the Republicans/ conservatives, although I have the impression they were much more desiring "leave us alone and we will leave you alone" and that mix of coalitional elements might be messier or muddier than for the "liberals". Even now I have trouble sorting out the subagendas vs. "labels" among "conservative" voices.
I guess an aspect of political science I had not appreciated before is this analysis of "social norms" and attitudes as they change over time among us multi-faceted humans. The day to day feedback is about polling, etc., which has a limited level of validity unless conducted on a suitably wide sample and properly defined scale, with truly neutral questions being asked.
A laundry list of things for Democrats to keep and to dump if they ever want to win again nationwide.
Keep a woman’s right to choose for the first trimester. Dump abortion until birth unless the mother’s health is at risk.
Keep a concern for climate change and grow nuclear power. Dump intermittent, unreliable renewable energy.
Keep and develop new effective vaccines. Dump vaccine mandates.
Keep equality of opportunity for all. Dump equity of results based on discriminating against men, whites and Asians (aka D.E.I.). Recognize that D.E.I. Is unconstitutional.
Keep the protection of gay and lesbian rights. Dump men in women’s sports, private spaces and prisons. Oh, and mutilating children who might grow up to be gay.
Keep an opportunity for selective high value immigration. Dump sanctuary cities and open borders.
Keep helping the homeless find jobs and a place to live. Dump camping in cities and allowing open drug use.
Keep a concern for due process in criminal justice. Dump letting shoplifters and other petty thieves off the hook.
Do all of the above and they might find their way back to power.
Let’s try to keep comments to the specific topic of the article. The topic is about important policy differences between New Deal Democrats (1932-1965) and Liberal Democrats (1980-2010).
I was either too young or too ignorant to recognize that most of this was happening as you have laid it out. Sort of a "walk down memory lane" for me. Good to re-establish that perspective.
Plus of course some folks had a mix of views between these poles (or pols).
Sometimes you can be living through some historical period and just be so busy with "life" that these larger views or impacts just don't register. Even when you agree with one agenda within a coalition, you may still disagree on other aspects. Plus the "victors" generally write the near contemporary history, perhaps in the first 30 to 50 years? Only after that can we start to expect real objective and neutral assessments, with less personal investment by the historians [but with many remaining exceptions]. Then also hope that the primary sources/ resources are not lost over time.
I suppose in the future you will do a companion piece on the Republicans/ conservatives, although I have the impression they were much more desiring "leave us alone and we will leave you alone" and that mix of coalitional elements might be messier or muddier than for the "liberals". Even now I have trouble sorting out the subagendas vs. "labels" among "conservative" voices.
I guess an aspect of political science I had not appreciated before is this analysis of "social norms" and attitudes as they change over time among us multi-faceted humans. The day to day feedback is about polling, etc., which has a limited level of validity unless conducted on a suitably wide sample and properly defined scale, with truly neutral questions being asked.
Thanks again for your continued postings.