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DemocracyMouse

(2,275 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 12:31 AM Mar 2018

Q: What do we do after the BLUE WAVE? [View all]

A: WE FLIP THE ECONOMIC PYRAMID

Q: How do we flip the economic pyramid?

A: We return to the New Deal, which worked amazingly well. We get serious about a progressive tax – which means tax the upper brackets a lot more and the lower brackets less. THEN we (smartly) allocate funds for physical and intellectual infrastructure – roads, schools, and environmental protections. We create the conditions for a robust PEOPLE's ECONOMY. Cultivate a healthy emergent system. It's really a traditional and highly effective idea with new biological theories to support it. See E.O. Wilson on emergent systems.

Q: What's a people's economy?

A: It's not one where corporations get all the concessions and tax breaks and everyone else gets crumbs and have to compete against those propped up behemoths. In a people's economy small business has leverage again – and "small" includes both a small family restaurant or plumbing outfit all the way down to an individual getting a state-funded nursing degree or electrician's license.

Return America to the Americans! Thank ALL progressive Democrats for reminding us that we abandoned what was once working in this country: the New Deal.

Same old? Hell yeah! It worked! Let's get ready to do it again – but better, with many lessons learned since the 1930s about INCLUDING women, the LGBTQ community, and all ethnicities and religious (and non-religious) persuasions.

I'm sick of doing three jobs. The pyramid must, and WILL be flipped.

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Q: What do we do after the BLUE WAVE? [View all] DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 OP
The Orange Crush? applegrove Mar 2018 #1
Oh my! I love it! nt ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #3
Fix Dams too. Blue_true Mar 2018 #2
Dams, and also bridges, and also new voting systems with a paper trail! DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #5
Make election days holidays thbobby Mar 2018 #11
That's easy: keep voting. Every. Time. Beartracks Mar 2018 #4
Undo....Rebuild. Liberal In Texas Mar 2018 #6
repukes will still have Russia, CA clone, gerrymandering and voter suppression Skittles Mar 2018 #7
GOTV now, and don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Hekate Mar 2018 #8
Somehow you must realize that a party with ideas gets the votes? DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #18
Are you saying Democrats don't have ideas, nobody knows who Democrats are and why they betsuni Mar 2018 #20
Some days you really wonder Hekate Mar 2018 #24
Some ideas Matthew28 Mar 2018 #9
Force corporate charters to expand fiduciary responsibility to the workers, the consumers, PatrickforO Mar 2018 #15
Repair the damage the GOP has done RainCaster Mar 2018 #10
Don't hold your breath. NOTHING has been done to protect our voting. C Moon Mar 2018 #12
Let's not be paranoid. Conor Lamb won in deep red PA. LBM20 Mar 2018 #17
Bleah... Steven Maurer Mar 2018 #13
That's my kind of talk! PatrickforO Mar 2018 #14
THANK YOU!!! That's movement energy! DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #21
Slow down folks. At the national level Trump will still be there, and we won't be veto proof. But... LBM20 Mar 2018 #16
No thank you oberliner Mar 2018 #19
Sounds like you're doin' fine and can't conceptualize what the majority are enduring. DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #22
Sorry - my response was snarky oberliner Mar 2018 #23
People vote for Democrats when they feel in their bones that they are on the people's side DemocracyMouse Mar 2018 #27
My first thought is to round em up MyNameGoesHere Mar 2018 #25
PARTY DOWN Loki Liesmith Mar 2018 #26
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