Joe Biden: polls of approval and favorability

[David Horn]

(03-11-2022, 05:22 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: We Democrats are doing the best we can to save America and restart progress, which must be done to save America. When a nation regresses and goes backward and fails to meet the needs of its people as the USA has done since neoliberalism was installed into power by Ronald Reagan (Reaganomics is just another name for neoliberalism), it cannot survive. You are not the solution, if you support Republicans; you are part of the problem. You don't know what you are voting for if you don't recognize that. Republicans support the wealthy keeping their wealth. That's why they oppose taxes. They support destruction of the environment and poor wages; that's why they oppose regulations on business. That's neoliberalism. It's just a choice. 

I am still Eric the Green because I still agree with the original key values of the Green Party, more or less anyway. Besides, my name has a nice ring to it, and it's a nice play on words.

Vaccine and mask mandates were needed, because when we as individuals do not do them this threatens the health of other people. This was not a freedom or individual rights issue.

I remind you also that free trade policies are part of Reaganomics and neoliberalism, although for sure the moderate "new" Democrats like the Clintons adhered to some neoliberal policies, without a doubt. Republicans are the ones who have allowed industries to move to China through support for free trade and opposition to tariffs, much more than Democrats. Although President Trump made lots of noise and some ineffective policies to oppose free trade and impose tariffs, that is the only respect in which he is not a neoliberal. Being more-or-less correct on one issue is not good enough when there are so many other vital issues.

Neoliberalism was an expected outgrowth of the 3T, because that's a near perfect metaphor for let-it-rip. Everyone who wanted to be in office was a player -- the rare exceptions not to the contrary. Now the real question is: has technology allowed the moneyed elite the luxury of financing such exquisite propaganda that they can coast all the way through the 4T without getting dinged in any way? So far, they're doing a bang-up job of finding allies among the very people they hurt the most.

If very little gets resolved in the 4T, and the 1T runs true to form, then the Gided Age 2.0 may gain enough momentum that reversing the obvious abusive practices we already see will become nearly impossible short of a 2T that looks like a 4T on steroids. Let's hope for more sanity, but accept the possibility that this will be the fate of our children and grandchildren.