Biden had the right idea: that government should indeed take care of people, but he never quite accepted that the people on the other side of the aisle are no longer like the ones he knew and worked with and compromised with when he was in the Senate. They are unrepentant Trumpists or, like McConnell, simply self-interested, with no conc…
Biden had the right idea: that government should indeed take care of people, but he never quite accepted that the people on the other side of the aisle are no longer like the ones he knew and worked with and compromised with when he was in the Senate. They are unrepentant Trumpists or, like McConnell, simply self-interested, with no concern that their actions are hurting or killing people. These senators are encouraging their constituents, by their awful example, to be ugly and uncaring. The pickle we are in is not at all pretty.
Compare Reagan's quips about "government" with the word of one of the founders of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln:
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities."
And in a government of, by, and for the people, we do it for each other, in concert, in a variety of ways. Reagan's and the modern GOP's "small government" was always a Trojan Horse for "anti-democracy" and feudalism-lite in its stead. "GOP" "small government" is selective; small for some, robust for others. Bankrupted bankers got Big help in Subprime Crisis, but aiding financially impacted ordinary folks was "moral hazard". The rich and powerful enjoyed waves of tax cuts and responsibility lifting "deregulation", while police where militarized, and responded with an increasingly heavy hand with those already most deprived.
Yet to this day, Reagan retains a media-fabricated "nice guy" image, even among some liberals, and even many Democrats, at least passively, support some form of "Reaganomic" prescriptions.
J L, I will never forgive Obama for not going after the banks that caused the crash. Their getting away with their malfeasance gave others the excuse to act similarly (just like not penalizing the Republicans who ignored subpoenas during the two impeachment trials gives those subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 Committee a similar get-out-of-jail-free card).
And I'm worried that if Merrick Garland doesn't indict Trump soon, Trump will declare his candidacy and use that as an excuse to be ineligible for indictment.
Biden had the right idea: that government should indeed take care of people, but he never quite accepted that the people on the other side of the aisle are no longer like the ones he knew and worked with and compromised with when he was in the Senate. They are unrepentant Trumpists or, like McConnell, simply self-interested, with no concern that their actions are hurting or killing people. These senators are encouraging their constituents, by their awful example, to be ugly and uncaring. The pickle we are in is not at all pretty.
Compare Reagan's quips about "government" with the word of one of the founders of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln:
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities."
And in a government of, by, and for the people, we do it for each other, in concert, in a variety of ways. Reagan's and the modern GOP's "small government" was always a Trojan Horse for "anti-democracy" and feudalism-lite in its stead. "GOP" "small government" is selective; small for some, robust for others. Bankrupted bankers got Big help in Subprime Crisis, but aiding financially impacted ordinary folks was "moral hazard". The rich and powerful enjoyed waves of tax cuts and responsibility lifting "deregulation", while police where militarized, and responded with an increasingly heavy hand with those already most deprived.
Yet to this day, Reagan retains a media-fabricated "nice guy" image, even among some liberals, and even many Democrats, at least passively, support some form of "Reaganomic" prescriptions.
J L, I will never forgive Obama for not going after the banks that caused the crash. Their getting away with their malfeasance gave others the excuse to act similarly (just like not penalizing the Republicans who ignored subpoenas during the two impeachment trials gives those subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 Committee a similar get-out-of-jail-free card).
And I'm worried that if Merrick Garland doesn't indict Trump soon, Trump will declare his candidacy and use that as an excuse to be ineligible for indictment.
Feudalism-lite? Lite?
There was some reciprocity even in racketeering -- pay up and we'll protect you. Where's there any reciprocity in our current corporate feudalism?
The people don't even have serf status.
He had better shift from that myth