tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post5292027776545444743..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Losing American Hearts And MindsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-15176274589413433482014-04-24T12:08:02.177-04:002014-04-24T12:08:02.177-04:00The VSP/Sensible Centrists/Villagers have a simple...The VSP/Sensible Centrists/Villagers have a simple consistent view of the economic and political sphere in America. Take that sphere and draw any set of diameters you choose and the intersection will be right in Sally Quinn's drawing room and/or the Green Room of MTP. While Keynes reminded us that in the long run we will all we dead Hiatt et all simply live with the belief that in the long run all opinion will revert to the mean. Which is to say with the opinion of him and his Beltway friends and colleagues. It is just a matter for all those people taking abherent positions to come around.<br /><br />The curious part about all this is that the Villagers are aware that the sphere changes over time and that attitudes about race and gender have reshaped it and so the intersection of those diameters over time has shifted as well. They just assume that they have "moved with the times" rather than being pulled to the new intersection by their very need to be 'sensible centrist'.<br /><br />That is like Communism and Libertarianism and True Conservativism, Sensible Centrism 'can not fail'. But not because 'it has not been tried', oh no. Because it has been tried continously and its long term success being judged by those that share its tenets.<br /><br />David Brooks and the Moustache of Understanding CANNOT be wrong. Ever. Even if they have changed their position over time. Because in their own minds they WERE the mean and still are and always will be and so wherever they end up will be the place that others revert to. Eventually.Bruce Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222670342780912788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-79710973686574959552014-04-22T11:26:48.598-04:002014-04-22T11:26:48.598-04:00In agreement with you and Baker. LBJ had a Democra...In agreement with you and Baker. LBJ had a Democratic majorities to work with which Obama does not. <br /><br />The problem is the corporate media which just misinforms and spreads propaganda. Hiatt is a prime example. Of course there are problems is academia as well.<br /><br />http://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained<br /><br />Hiatt does not present an accurate history. I'd go back to TARP and the financial crisis. The Democrats went along with Bush. Republicans have become the party of no. <br /><br />Obama tried to deal over the sequester and that was a disaster, ruining many lives. As you remind us Obama doesn't get any credit from Hiatt over offering up Soc Security cuts. The Republicans never gave an inch and tried extortion over the debt ceiling. The only way to respond to this maliciousness is repeat the history over and over as Baker does. <br /><br />What made me laugh was "They could have resources for family policies that really would help address the wage gap." <br /><br />What twisted logic. Cut money for family support to address the wage gap? We saw George W. Bush did after Clinton balanced the budget. He cut taxes on the rich and gave us a housing bubble which increased the wage gap.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08272747870634233567noreply@blogger.com