Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Pete: "Normalcy" got us where we are today. [View all]crazytown
(7,277 posts)To say we have have more to do or further to go' is not good enough. Real wages have not risen since the early seventies for 90% of the population, while the cost of college has spiralled out of control. Upward mobility has stalled; Downward mobility is widespread and feared. There are precious few greenshoots on the graves of American industry while the CEOs who closed the factories flaunt their wealth.
This our normal. This is how it has been been for almost 40 years. Generations have grown up knowing nothing else. Presidents Clinton and Obama were not able to break it. Both confronted economic disasters left by the Republicans and both faced hostile, obstructionist House of Representatives after the first Midterms.
Here is what Pete Buttigieg said at the April CNN town hall.
I think this is really important to understand, because we need to make sure we ... as a party that we don't come to be viewed as the defenders of a system that is letting people down. And we wouldn't be here if the economic and political system hadn't failed people.
(snip) The system needs to be changed profoundly. I guess that's my point. We can't just nibble around the edges and expect people to be happy with us. Now, I've got a slightly different account than my competitors do about how best to do it, but the fundamental lesson is that our economic and political system has been letting people down I would say for my entire lifetime.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided