This issue shows a good example of why we cannot deal with our core economic problem. This policy is a small step towards addressing our economic inequality problem has been under public discussion for at least a decade. OTOH transgender bathroom use is is a very new issue that has just come to public attention in the last year Overtime rules is something that should have been done a long time ago, but only got done last month. The transgender issue that affects way fewer people, that gets acted on right away. This says something about Democratic priorities in the age of Obama, who ran on a change platform.
It's nothing new. After they ran on an economic change platform in 1992 and what was the first thing the Clinton administration took up? Gays in the military! I remember thinking WTF? Then he made a full court press to get NAFTA approved by the Democratic Congress over the strenuous objection of Labor. And this after seeing a third party candidate getting 20% of the vote in a campaign in which opposition to NAFTA was a central issue.
Perot's success suggested that Clinton could have wooed Reagan Democrats (who still existed then) by embracing the Perot anti-free trade and balance the budget economic platform rather than tough-on-crime laws and ending welfare as we know it. That is he could have made his crime and welfare campaign promises just campaign blather while pursuing economically liberal issues as the real policy. That is, sort of an inverse Republican style.
Instead they decided the solution to the 1980's Democratic electoral problems was to move to the right economically in areas the Republicans were not yet competitive, but keep their socially-liberal stances, and small-scale professionally-designed programs to address social problems that appealed to educated whites. For their part, the GOP also offers a menu of economic polices that appeal to the same demographic as well as to the rich.
The result has been two parties who have nothing economically to offer the 40% of the population that falls into in the class between the unemployed poor and the middle classes. And this explains the Trump/Sanders phenomena.
Obama's prioritization of the needs of the transgendered as more urgent than those of the working class demonstrates the same sort of 1990's "New Democrat" economic priorities. Since Clinton's wife is running for president, rational observers can rightly conclude that it is business as usual.
It's nothing new. After they ran on an economic change platform in 1992 and what was the first thing the Clinton administration took up? Gays in the military! I remember thinking WTF? Then he made a full court press to get NAFTA approved by the Democratic Congress over the strenuous objection of Labor. And this after seeing a third party candidate getting 20% of the vote in a campaign in which opposition to NAFTA was a central issue.
Perot's success suggested that Clinton could have wooed Reagan Democrats (who still existed then) by embracing the Perot anti-free trade and balance the budget economic platform rather than tough-on-crime laws and ending welfare as we know it. That is he could have made his crime and welfare campaign promises just campaign blather while pursuing economically liberal issues as the real policy. That is, sort of an inverse Republican style.
Instead they decided the solution to the 1980's Democratic electoral problems was to move to the right economically in areas the Republicans were not yet competitive, but keep their socially-liberal stances, and small-scale professionally-designed programs to address social problems that appealed to educated whites. For their part, the GOP also offers a menu of economic polices that appeal to the same demographic as well as to the rich.
The result has been two parties who have nothing economically to offer the 40% of the population that falls into in the class between the unemployed poor and the middle classes. And this explains the Trump/Sanders phenomena.
Obama's prioritization of the needs of the transgendered as more urgent than those of the working class demonstrates the same sort of 1990's "New Democrat" economic priorities. Since Clinton's wife is running for president, rational observers can rightly conclude that it is business as usual.
