For Democrats wondering what hit them on Election Day, we recommend as food for thought an essay in todays NY Times by Kevin Baker. Heres a taste: The Democratic Party seems scared of its own shadow, which is probably why it keeps reassuring itself that its triumph is inevitable. It needs instead to fully acknowledge just how devastating the recession was for working people everywhere in America, and what a generation of largely flat wages did to their aspirations even before that. It needs to take on hard fights, even against powerful forces like pharmaceutical and insurance companies that presume to tell us the limits of what our health care can be or energy companies that presume to tell us what the worlds climate can endure. It means carving out a place of respect for working men and women in our globalized, finance-driven world. Good stuff Mr. Baker. Good stuff indeed!!
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 21:04:32 +0000
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