Good discussion. The Democrats can be a hegemonic party—yes, a hegemonic party—if they move left on economics and to the center on cultural issues. By "left on economics," I mean policies prioritizing employees' needs over finance's needs. By "the center on cultural issues," I mean Obama-era secularism, without the pronouns and other mischief that was invented five minutes ago.
This will work for two reasons. One, laissez-faire economics is generally unpopular. Even large chunks of Republicans want a thirty-two-hour work week, drastically higher taxes on the rich, Medicare for all, etc. Secondly, there are no longer enough Christians in America to sustain the GOP's backlash performance art politics without progressive virtue-signalers in the upper-middle class keeping it on life support.
We have a winning hand; we need to play it.
The worst side of Blair and Clinton's effort to transition labor parties into finance parties has been the pursuit of Wall Street's cultural and ethnic agenda, which has led to criminal and expensive foreign policy consequences. The end goal is the demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its replacement by the Third Temple -- lunatic, apocalyptic stuff that has nothing to do with most Americans. There is more than enough oil in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for us to disengage from this part of the world completely.
Good discussion. The Democrats can be a hegemonic party—yes, a hegemonic party—if they move left on economics and to the center on cultural issues. By "left on economics," I mean policies prioritizing employees' needs over finance's needs. By "the center on cultural issues," I mean Obama-era secularism, without the pronouns and other mischief that was invented five minutes ago.
This will work for two reasons. One, laissez-faire economics is generally unpopular. Even large chunks of Republicans want a thirty-two-hour work week, drastically higher taxes on the rich, Medicare for all, etc. Secondly, there are no longer enough Christians in America to sustain the GOP's backlash performance art politics without progressive virtue-signalers in the upper-middle class keeping it on life support.
We have a winning hand; we need to play it.
The worst side of Blair and Clinton's effort to transition labor parties into finance parties has been the pursuit of Wall Street's cultural and ethnic agenda, which has led to criminal and expensive foreign policy consequences. The end goal is the demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its replacement by the Third Temple -- lunatic, apocalyptic stuff that has nothing to do with most Americans. There is more than enough oil in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for us to disengage from this part of the world completely.