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Karen TumultyInstead, it heard anxiety about what people sense is happening in their own lives that good jobs are vanishing; that they dont have the right skills for a digital, globalized economy; that prospects for their children will be worse.
The think tank has put forward its own set of proposals, to deal with what it calls a crisis of opportunity. Among them are replacing unemployment insurance with a program that would also fund job-skills development, and vouchers to help people move to places where there are job openings; a minimum wage that would vary by region; and eliminating all tax on the first $15,000 of earned income.
None of these is likely to generate much excitement on the left. Nor are they proposals you will hear much about during this campaign season, given that midterm elections tend to become referendums on the presidents performance.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Ocasio-Cortezs platform is slightly left in the rest of the world.
Dems ARE centrists.
Cha
(297,154 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)What Im saying is that Republicans have gone off the deep end and Dems have remained where they were.
So by definition Dems are centrists.
As Mann and Ornstein put it: Dems have gone from their 40 to their 35, while Republicans went out the back of their own end zone.
Republicans want to paint Dems as extreme. There is only one extremist party in America: Republicans.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Maybe it just means recasting the terminology, but it's about income, and it's about inequality.
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)Part of the "service economy" shift - there are endless employment opportunities, but they are in the $8-12/ hr range with limited benefits.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Do you see anything in the article that attempts to answer that question?
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)But I thought the content was interesting enough to post.
I have to say I don't see proposing to change out unemployment insurance for job training and relocation vouchers going over very well.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)NBC News account of the event suggests it wound up being little more than a group therapy session for Democrats fretting about the rise of an insurgent left energized by Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign and recent high-profile victories for candidates like democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who scored an upset win over Queens Democratic Party boss and incumbent congressman Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary last month. Third Way unveiled the results of focus groups and polling that it says shows Americans are more receptive to an economic message built on opportunity rather than the lefts message about inequality, reported NBCs Alex Seitz-Wald. This was heartening stuff for moderates like Delawares former Gov. Jack Markell. The only narrative that has been articulated in the Democratic Party over the past two years is the one from the left, he lamented. I think we need a debate within the party.
That debate over the partys direction is, of course, well underway, and the left has indeed dominated it. Six proposals to expand the governments role in providing access to health care have been advanced by Democratic leaders and analysts in recent months. Bernie Sanders Medicare for all bill, specifically, has been endorsed by 2020 candidates in waiting Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Kamala Harris. In April, Chuck Schumer announced that he would be introducing a bill to decriminalize marijuana, a move that followed Bookers introduction last July of the Marijuana Justice Act, which would decriminalize marijuana and provide reparative measures for convicts and communities deeply impacted by the war on drugs. Late last summer, the Democratic Party released its A Better Deal policy platform, which called for, among other proposals, a $15 minimum wage and a reinvigoration of antitrust policy to tackle corporate concentration. In her memoir What Happened, Hillary Clinton wrote that she had considered proposing during her campaign a universal basic income programa welfare measure that would provide cash payments to every American.
Yavin4
(35,437 posts)These "think tankers" have no idea of what life is like outside of their bubble world where everyone goes to elite universities and never has to worry about money, health care, transportation, rent, etc.