I asked my apartment manager why ideology and policy are separate when charting a political agenda?
It would make sense to craft policy to build the framework in support of an ideology or vision. Partisanship aside, isn't that how succesful non for profit, private, and public entities work? Not in modern politics however, because there must only be pragmatic solutions.
America has consistently short changed itself by adhering to the status quo.
Now we are behind the 8 ball and it will take more than magic to reverse our course. We cannot continue to mortgage the future for the sake of the present. Trickle down economics has led to income inequality. Reliance on foreign oil has crippled our geopolitical agenda. The lobbyists have crippled our health care system.
This isn't about politics anymore. It is about our future and whether our children and grandchildren will have one that is true to the revolutionary spirt of America.
Right now, they will be left holding the bag.
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Have American's truly embraced the concept that it is no longer about our pocketbooks, but about our children's future? I'm not convinced.
The problem with free-market economics is that short-term profits have always trumped social benefits. Until opportunity cost includes factors like the environment, quality of life, etc. and evovles beyond those described in economic terms, ie. supply, demand, etc., everyone's future will be minimized so that corporate entities and economic regulators are the beneficiaries.
There is no question that we have consistently mortgaged our future for the present. That is often how politicians are elected, and quite frankly, how voters often judge them.
I wouldn't underestimate the political machinery that has devalued demand side economics over the years either.
We tend to have short memories.
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