DEM tries to rebrand itself with new slogans (Bigger Better Deal) and a revised scaled down platform but are they putting too much faith in the Blue Collar community by actually blaming the worker.
Oh let’s not forget their cool “Trust Buster” program, which by the way really needs a superhero mascot – PB/TK
The Central Contradiction of the Democrats’ “Better Deal” – By Bryce Covert /July 25 2017
Eight months after their devastating loss to Donald Trump, Democrats have finally decided to coalesce around a core message to strengthen their position as they head into the 2018 midterms. They are focusing squarely on so-called kitchen table issues: jobs, wages, and the price of everyday needs. They are also approaching these issues through a new, systemic framework: The “Better Deal” agenda that they rolled out on Monday acknowledges that the economy is skewed in favor of big corporations and against workers. It promises to increase pay, which has been stagnant for decades, and full-time employment.
But there is a glaring contradiction at the agenda’s heart, one that shows that Democrats still haven’t learned how to address the profound problems that plague our economy: They’re still too quick to blame workers themselves for their own economic plight.
The Better Deal is deeply interested in the fairness, or lack thereof, of today’s economy. “There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college, and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a New York Times op-ed, arguing that special interests have been allowed to rewrite those rules in their own favor. And, he noted, “[F]or far too long, government has gone along, tilting the economic playing field in favor of the wealthy and powerful.”
In her own version of this argument in The Washington Post, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that Americans are struggling in “a rigged economy and a system stacked against them.”
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