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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the centrists in this party did some introspection, too. [View all]vi5
(13,305 posts)...and at this point it's been proven time and time and time again that right leaning, trickle down, corporate centered approaches to economics don't work.
It's been proven time and time again that when we take bottom up approaches to economics that it works.
It's being proven right now in places like Kansas and North Carolina and other places that right leaning economic policies are abject failures on a local and national level.
It's been proven at this point that strong unionization benefits everyone and that when unions are dismissed or knocked down or diminished that it hurts workers, hurts the poor and middle class, and increases economic inequality.
It's been proven that throwing good money after bad when it comes to the military industrial complex doesn't make us safer.
It's been proven that bombing our way to peace and safety is not happening.
We can no longer say that these experiments are unproven because they have been tried several times over at this point and it's been proven that liberal, progressive, left leaning policies work and that right leaning, conservative policies do not.
I have no problem respecting someone who thinks something different than what I believe works. But when there is proof that it doesn't, I'm not sure why we have to pretend it does just to preserve their feelings. And that in a nutshell is what we are confronted with in this "centrism versus progressive" debate.
And the bigger problem is that many of these issues are not just taken or approved of by a few minor player red-state Dems, but too often the entire party takes this stuff as proven truth and starts our negotiations and positioning from a stance of thinking that they are true.