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The Democrats' Radicalism Problem
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By Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
January 30, 2019

President Trump is deeply unpopular. According to RealClearPolitics, his favorability ratings now stand at just 41 percent — near-historic lows. This means that Democrats have the upper hand heading into 2020. All they have to do is not be radically insane.

And they just can't do it.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., the media darling of the moment, stated on a CNN town hall this week that she wants to fully abolish private health insurance, ban all semi-automatic weapons and rid the American economy of carbon emissions within a decade.

None of these positions are popular. Americans are interested in the idea of Medicare-for-All so long as there are no costs. The minute they're told that there may be delays in receiving care, as there are in nearly all countries with socialized medicine, support plummets to just 26 percent, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Only 37 percent support Medicare-for-All if it means merely raising taxes. How about banning all semi-automatic weapons? As of October, 57 percent of Americans opposed banning semi-automatics. And when it comes to abolishing private cars — which would essentially be necessary to achieve the goals of the so-called Green New Deal — that proposal wouldn't even chart.

Yet the Democratic primaries will require nearly every Democrat to embrace each of these positions. That's probably why Democrats are quaking in their boots at the possibility of a third-party run by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Schultz has declared nationalized health care an impossibility; he has talked about the dangers of our massive national debt; he has opposed a 70 percent income tax rate. "I respect the Democratic Party," Schultz told CNBC this week. "I no longer feel affiliated because I don't know their views represent the majority of Americans."
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Now, Schultz may be a boring billionaire, but at least he isn't pushing proposals so loony they alienate vast swaths of the American public. Democrats want to have it both ways: They want to push radical leftist policy, but they don't want the blowback such policies entail. They want to pretend that radical leftism is popular even as they implicitly acknowledge the fact that it's not all that popular.

Hence New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg's fulminating over Schultz's candidacy. She writes, "this frustrated executive's politics aren't widely shared by people who haven't been to Davos." Trump's riding in the low 40s. Democrats shouldn't have to sweat out fringe candidacies. Yet that's what they're doing, because they know they've pushed too far to the left.

There's an easy answer to the Schultz conundrum for Democrats: Stop embracing the radical id of your own base. But that would involve recognizing that Trump's unpopularity isn't equivalent to support for radicalism. And Democrats will never acknowledge it — not as long as the hope remains that Trump's unpopularity will translate into extreme leftist policy, the likes of which the republic has rarely seen.

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The radical Democrats are creating a lot of problems for those who voted in their favor, but as i see it, these Voters will soon see the truth and the Liberal Leftist, will have to change their ways. Do it or Die!!!!!!.Now what's all Y'all's Opinion on this Issue?

MarvinSussman

LET’S PREPARE OUR DEFENSE WITH A MAXIMUM EFFORT !!

A nation can be in only one of three possible states of affairs.

First, a nation can be at war, in an existential struggle, depending upon its defense.

To survive such an embattled state of affairs, a nation must continually prepare its defense.

Next, a nation can prepare defense with a maximum effort by using all of its idle resources to increase and to improve its infrastructure and its most important resource, its people, whose health and education are essential and can be improved most surely by providing free healthcare for all and free, expense-paid education for all. Such preparation of defense needs maximum Congressional spending, which needs a maximum effort to prevent inflation, which needs adequate taxation of disposable income and no taxation of non-disposable income, which needs adequate and steeply progressive federal income and estate tax rates.

Such a provident nation would be well-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.

Finally, a nation can prepare its defense but WITHOUT a maximum effort to increase and improve its infrastructure, NOT providing free health care for all and free, expense-paid education for all, being more concerned with budget deficits and tax relief for the rich and their heirs while mired in idleness, poverty, trafficking, addiction, crime, and mass incarceration.

Such an improvident nation (ours!) is now ill-prepared to survive an embattled state of affairs.
Citizens opposed to free healthcare and expense-paid education for all, including free trade schools, will vote for inflation due to skilled labor shortages, for military recruiting shortages due to poor health and education, and for medical cost bankruptcies. Votes against maximum Congressional spending will guarantee destructive poverty, decaying infrastructure, and a sub-optimal defense that threatens our survival in an embattled state of affairs.

A provident nation will be not only the most prepared nation but also the most prosperous nation because that nation’s spending would generate the largest annual federal budget deficit, which is exactly equal to the sum of its annual trade deficit plus its annual domestic net private savings. That sum represents the nation’s consumption of foreign goods plus its private after-tax earnings, a necessary source of investment for growth. Therefore, that sum is directly proportional to the nation’s prosperity, that which trumps all taxes, sustains its social health, and encourages its youth, perhaps the most important element of its defense.

So, preparing our defense with maximum effort is also our best economic policy, as proven by the decades of post-war prosperity created by our huge World War II deficit spending on salaries that were saved as “War Bonds”, eventually cashed in for homes, cars, and kids, creating the prosperous suburbs that since exist all over America. Ask Granny for details!

Citizens intelligent enough to understand the above will vote for the provident nation!

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Kevyn

The progressive democrats are pushing the same agenda that our most popular president used to save the nation from communism resulting from the reaction to the result of unbridled unregulated lazi fare capitalism. Franklin D. Roosevelt.