Populist Politics

Babagounj

Strength through joy

This last line of the story says it all.
Google has sole more than $139 million in political ads over the last month alone.
 

100012438

Well-Known Member
There is no political solution. Even Trump, who secured the working class vote and promised a lot couldn’t make do on most of it because he simply can’t. Freemasons and the tiny hat crew run things and you’ll never see a middle class like what we had in the 50’s and 60’s again.
 

BrownFlush

Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
There is no political solution. Even Trump, who secured the working class vote and promised a lot couldn’t make do on most of it because he simply can’t. Freemasons and the tiny hat crew run things and you’ll never see a middle class like what we had in the 50’s and 60’s again.
I've thought about your point often.
I think what happened after that period was the middle class, left the middle and began to have too much.
They didn't like it.
 

rickyb

Well-Known Member
There is no political solution. Even Trump, who secured the working class vote and promised a lot couldn’t make do on most of it because he simply can’t. Freemasons and the tiny hat crew run things and you’ll never see a middle class like what we had in the 50’s and 60’s again.
2 parties are coopted by money.

civil disobedience and putting fear into those with power in corporate board rooms and political offices is the only solution. an example of this is the non violent aspects of occupy wall st, BLM, and extinction rebellion.

only a heavily regulated capitalism can save us, if we are to stick with capitalism.
 

refineryworker05

Well-Known Member
Five of the last seven presidential administrations based their campaigns on populist politics (the exception being Bush Jr.).

Taking this into consideration, why isn’t the middle-class doing better.

For instance, the incumbent is truly a man of the people, and his policy measures undoubtedly reflect that.

And yet, during his presidency, wages have only increased by approximately one percent in real terms. What gives?

And wasn’t Obama going to “Change” things?

I’m extremely patriotic, and have a lot of faith in the electoral process, but I’m beginning to think there may not be much difference between the two parties on matters of economics.

Oh well. Social issues are pretty important, too...I guess.

Imo opinion there are policy differences between the two parties on economics. In general democrats would increase taxes on the wealthy and businesses, to pay for creating jobs through infrastructure spending, healthcare insurance, child care. Moody's, did an analysis of both Biden's economic plans and trump's economic plans and projected that Biden's economic policies would lead to stronger job growth, increased household wages

www.moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2020/the-macroeconomic-consequences-trump-vs-biden.pdf

Also penn wharton budget model and oxford economics also found that biden's economic policies do more to improve the economy.
budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2020/9/14/biden-2020-analysis

The oxford economics study is behind a paywall, but here is an article discussing it

charlotteraleigh.citybizlist.com/article/630848
 

SLW

Well-Known Member
Imo opinion there are policy differences between the two parties on economics
There are, but ultimately the end result is the same for the working class: Republican's quick and messy point blank execution or Democrat's slowly adding more and more arsenic to the coffee every morning.
 

refineryworker05

Well-Known Member
There are, but ultimately the end result is the same for the working class: Republican's quick and messy point blank execution or Democrat's slowly adding more and more arsenic to the coffee every morning.
I have no doubt that both political parties, hell all political parties in every nation probably favor the interests of rich people. I have no doubt that democrats are very disappointing in that regard, but of the two parties in America, they are the only one that will even pay attention to real populist economic policies, there is a small lefty/socialist faction in the democratic party. the republican party doesn't even pretend to care. On a basic level republican economic ideology is against the minimum wage. trump during the last debate questioned the need for the minimum wage at one point. the republican party is vehemently anti-unionization, whenever auto plants in the south try to unionize, republican politicians threaten those workers with taking away that plant's subsidies. The trump tax cuts go almost entirely to the top 5% of wage earners. Again if a voter wants even a slime chance of getting any populist economic policies, republicans are actively hostile to that agenda.
 
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