Well, we can count on hearing Trump crow for a few days. Regardless of him not being totally exonerated.
Hmm, isn't this younger generation proposing free college, health care for all, and UBI but at the same time saying we got things for free that they aren't getting.
Therefore old people are wrecking the country.
It's almost like I didn't address this or something. This is a very frustrating debate because you just keep repeating this without acknowledging the counterargument. We're just talking past each other at this point.The youth have a considerable numbers advantage and refuse to vote in a big enough percentage to change things.
Well it certainly didn't hurt that it was his hand picked man that got to decide if there was enough to go forward on OOJ. Yeah further action against him is going to look bad. But his children are still fair game.
Yeah, the fact that Mueller did not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice but Barr conveniently did, is getting lost in the noise of "no collusion". Of course, AG Barr was never going to pursue OOJ charges against Trump. Personally, I think Trump did commit OOJ, just not to mask collusion. Rather, Trump committed OOJ to try to prevent all the other dirt from coming out (cohen payments, Trump Tower meeting etc). I also fear that the entire Mueller Report will never come out because Barr will not want anything to come out that would make Trump look bad. So Barr can release his "principled conclusions" that exonerate Trump and now has an excuse to bury the full report, preventing any specifics that would damage trump from ever coming out.
In terms of the best path forward now for Dems, I think they should lay low and just focus on winning 2020 on the issues. After all, the presidential election is still 1.5 years away which is a long time in politics. A lot can happen. If the economy does turn sour (not that I am wishing for that) it would help the Dems.
Your generation started at a time when the US accounted for half of world economic output. You created a full employment economy which included plenty of family-supporting jobs for people with no high school degrees, went to college for a fraction of the real costs to students today, made it easy and affordable for anyone white to buy a house. You then systematically destroyed all these things when the time came for subsequent generations to benefit from them.
Coming out of WWII the USA was king but other countries recovered and cold war policy exported jobs
You don't have to wait for the economy to turn sour - as if it isn't sour for a lot of people, with gains concentrated on top. You have to attack the current system for its current failures. Actually believe it. But you can't expect that from a party that sells itself to the highest donators.
I sort of oscillate between believing the Democrats need to win, and believing they need to be completely destroyed and remade, and to do that they will need to lose badly.
I sort of oscillate between believing the Democrats need to win, and believing they need to be completely destroyed and remade, and to do that they will need to lose badly.
I sort of oscillate between believing the Democrats need to win, and believing they need to be completely destroyed and remade, and to do that they will need to lose badly.
I sort of oscillate between believing the Democrats need to win, and believing they need to be completely destroyed and remade, and to do that they will need to lose badly.
There is no real difference in the reported unemployment rate from 1945 onward. There are some spikes related to economical shocks ofc. And the WW2 war industry period does not count.
https://www.thebalance.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506
Now... unemployment figures can differ over time from definitions etc.
But if I use the Penn Table figures of "number of persons engaged (in millions)" and "average annual hours worked by persons engaged" and calculate the Utilisation % by dividing the total hours worked by "available labor on the population from 15-64 year", the utilisation is pretty much constant from 1950-2017. The 90ies relative good, and dips in the 70ies and after the GFC. Now at 0.5% lower than the average over 1950-2017.