The Hill: Fury fuels the modern political climate in US
Americans are angry about everything.
That’s what Rep. Steve Israel thought just months before the 2014 midterm elections. During that cycle, Israel poured over reams of data and watched hours of focus groups with voters across the country. The New York Democrat, who had been tasked with coordinating his party’s messaging strategy, saw voters deeply antipathetic about more than just the partisan political process.
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WNU Editor: This anger has been around for a while .... so why the focus now? I guess it is a slow realization among the Washington establishment and the main stream media (i.e. The Hill) that there must be something behind the election of Donald Trump .... a person that almost everyone in this community did not expect him to win in 2016. So they are ticking off the "anger box" as their explanation .... I say that it is more. The first one is the realization that both political parties do not really represent them .... advocating one thing during an election cycle, doing something else when they have secured their electoral win. The second is the main stream media .... a realization that they are biased and partisan in their coverage. Third .... and this is a big one .... economic policies that punish those who want to work hard to have a better life.
editor: I think you are way off in your assessment. This distrust etc goes back at least to the divisions evident in the Nam war .
ReplyDeleteYour are going way back in history Fred. We can say the same about the American civil war .... or even the war of independence where only a third of the population supported it. The focus is on the modern era (i.e. the election of Reagan to now). and the growing distrust and anger against the institutions that did help make America great.
ReplyDeleteNam not that far back...civil war divisions were states versus union, slavery versus non slavery. but Nam: we discovered our elected leaders were lying and secretely sending troops into war without the public informed etc. Then, when, closer to our times, Newt shut down the govt, the split widened among two parties and no longer willing to compromise. Humphrey very liberal noted that politics art of compromise. Since Newt, no compromise or very little of it...just look today at health care!
ReplyDelete" This distrust etc goes back at least to the divisions evident in the Nam war . "
ReplyDeleteYes and liberals never did get well.
Students for a Democratic Society
This communist poison runs deep in the veins of Democrats/liberals. Many do not know they are sick puppies.
"Without being Marxist or pro-communism, they denounced anti-communism as being a social problem and an obstruction to democracy. They also criticized the United States for its exaggerated paranoia and exclusive condemnation of the Soviet Union, and blamed this for being the reason for failing to achieve disarmament and to assure peace.
The Port Huron Convention opened with a symbol of this break with the policy of the past years: the delegate of the Communist Progressive Youth Organizing Committee asked to attend the conference as an observer. The people from the Young People's Socialist League objected while most of the SDSers insisted on letting him sit. "
BTW FRED,
ReplyDeleteThere was a paperback book out on racist/Democrat Wood Wilson's secret intervention on or before 1979.