The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

From my perspective, the time America was great was also the tax and spend liberal time, the time the Democrats pushed benefits and labor unions to put more in the hands of the workers, less in the hands of the elites. Now, the rest of the world’s factories are not going to get bombed out again. The jobs sent abroad in the conservative era (with the aid of both parties) are not going to come back. But productivity has gone steadily up. The difference is the Democratic favoring of the people, the Republican favoring of the racists and elites.

Again, from my perspective, each Republican from “It’s the economy stupid”, to the Great Recession of Bush 43, to Trump’s coronavirus collapse has… collapsed. It takes a more responsible pay off the debt Democratic administration to undo the damage done by the voodoo economics.

And the problem with the 70s was getting the economy used to getting off the gold standard. This was as much Nixon’s fault as anyone. It took years of discipline and stagflation to fix it. And naturally, Reagan stole the credit, and immediately started voodoo to wreck it again.

Now the Republican leaning posters here don’t look at the obvious, Republican failures. Repeatedly. They find ways to look at things backwards, to blame the Democrats. Fantasy. Lies. Good times become bad, and bad good. Policies fail due to the opposition resisting them not because they are bad policies. By screaming their fantasies loud enough they think they can repeat the same mistakes indefinitely.

Now I anticipate the Republicans are going to repeat their fantasies again. If I have my perspective, others will have theirs, and we can go back and forth indefinitely.

If it ever is going to end, people have to look at the facts. We had a boom time in the progressive era. We had a bunch of collapses towards the end of Republican terms in the White House in the conservative eras. You have to keep coming back to that. Voodoo economics stink. It is past time to move beyond that.