tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post4060083585001999897..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: The Establishment and the NationDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-61942297303799008672020-12-10T23:28:44.631-05:002020-12-10T23:28:44.631-05:00Professor
"...Nor is it clear that a Biden A...Professor<br /><br />"...Nor is it clear that a Biden Administration will take any really effective steps to stop the march toward greater inequality. Biden recently remarked that there is no reason that the top income tax should not be what it was when George W. Bush came into office, that is, 39.8%. American society made the greatest progress towards equality from the 1930s through the 1960s, when the top rate was 90% (and it fell only to about 75% in 1964 and was still at least 50% when Reagan came into office.)..." DK<br /><br />When Americans, and especially liberal Americans, talk about equality or inequality of income or of wealth, as a goal or ideal of any good political system, really, anywhere in the world, they give a false and unrealistic image of political ideals and political activist goals for billions of non Americans, for whom such ideals, in terms of comparable wealth of the global underclass, are not even remotely obtainable.<br />One always wishes one's childhood ideals were capable of being made real.<br />Sadly, they are not.<br />All the best Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-68247201677251196882020-12-06T12:12:04.781-05:002020-12-06T12:12:04.781-05:00"We may therefore have to focus on more immed..."We may therefore have to focus on more immediate goals--such as the restoration of sanity to our political life, and at least a moderately effective attack on some national problems--for some time."<br />This is the logical more for the nation. We have (presumably)four years to course correct our national consensus. Going beyond that could be unrealistic at the moment.tapithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606891082553134551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-46897901441817047612020-12-06T00:25:55.525-05:002020-12-06T00:25:55.525-05:00Professor
Excellent measured summary, party polit...Professor<br /><br />Excellent measured summary, party politics, and both domestic and foreign policy, of the up to date situation, recent decades, near term prognosis.<br /><br />Reading Lisa Lerer, or Bret Stephens, for examples, I look behind the discussions.<br /><br />I didn't start out that way, decades ago. I was a wide eyed liberal. It was a skill I had to learn. <br /><br />Both of them, it seems to me, treat either Democratic or Republican issue groups of readers, or voters, as a very complex and evolving zoo, a motley zoo of stooges for either Democratic Jewish or Republican Jewish policy analysts readers or gurus, which must be watched and analyzed. <br /><br />That is one reason why they have focused on the changing demographics and the rise in Republican voters of color. Things like that.<br /><br />All the best<br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com