2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Democratic Party in 2016 Primaries is either going to completely morph into a new [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)But there is nothing inherently wrong with the "old solutions" either. They actually worked to set-up a very robust economy.
Yes, the world has changed and will change and the globalism of it and the automation of it and even the Internet of it are things we haven't dealt with very well.
But the fundamental thing that has to be reinstated is a fundamental premise of government as being "for the common good". That essential characteristic, in the founding papers, has been lost for some berserk form of the American dream which is strictly "dog eat dog". That experiment is not working, and does not have to be. We are all in this together, and we will rise or fall together, one way or the other.
I hope and assume that you will agree with this, and that any healthy economy has its roots in also effectively contributing to the welfare of an entire nation, not just the wealthiest 1 percent.