Lessons from Past Primaries

[greatlaurel]

7. Thank you for this well thought out and well written post.

There is a vast difference the issues facing Americans between 1984 and 2016, but one constant, besides baseball, is the economic insecurity has expanded its clutches into more and more American families, yet the GOP has managed to blame the Democratic Party for these troubles while pushing their agenda that takes from the middle and lower classes and gives to the 1%.

One issue that has not been discussed is the education issue as a big part of the Democratic Party set backs this November. The Obama administration has followed the playbook of Wall Street for the privatization of public schools at breakneck speed. The public schools are under a well thought out campaign to force privatization. Not all Democrats are involved, but the Obama administration has been front and center leading the charge. This cost many Democrats tens of thousands of votes that usually come our way from educators, who saw no reason to vote for Democrats this time. The next Democratic candidate for POTUS needs to resoundingly reject school privatization and high stakes testing. This will bring many votes from educators as well as parents.