Volume 7, Issue 17
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Yes, the field is diversified by gender, race, ethnicity, and age. But, the ideological divisions are beginning to become apparent. When Cory Booker first announced, he was attacked by certain Democratic leaders for being too pro-business. His crime was having made the common sense statement that corporations and businesses have a role in creating jobs and prosperity. Little was made of these criticisms by the national press. It was considered intramural competition. Cory Booker lags in the polls today partly by being barred from the grassroots activists.
The Justice Democrats, a new political organization emerging in the last cycle has stated as their purpose the elimination of centrist, non-radical members of Congress. They sound the calls for uncompromised socialism and total government control. The recruited face and carefully orchestrated image of their new manifesto is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are offering campaign positions foundational to socialism without clearly labeling their philosophy. These two leading progressives, along with the Justice Democrats, are maneuvering to isolate any candidate like Joe Biden, who in their opinion is infected with a political affinity for compromise with capitalism.
The platform of Warren and Sanders calls for the elimination of student loan debt and free tuition for higher education. Currently, liberal economists at least recognize that such actions of government must be monetized and represented in the budget as a current liability. To Senator Warren’s disappointment, she is forced to recognize the reality that there is a cost to "free" programs. She begrudgingly has accepted the number of $1.2 trillion as the price of her ideas.
What she and Bernie Sanders either ignore or don't understand is that the people pay for government spending collectively in taxes. If the money is just printed and distributed the currency is debased. Approximately one-third of citizens attend college. Two-thirds pursue vocational careers or other pursuits. Why should those who decide not to go to college have to pay additional taxes to underwrite those who decide to go to college?
Warren who refuses to accept the axioms of economics persists by saying she will only tax those families with total wealth exceeding $50 million. Forget the fact that taxes may have already been paid on that wealth in the year earned. There is no model that supports the economic revenue projections of taxing wealthy individuals to reach $1.2 trillion without confiscating wealth. Talk about the numbers not adding up.
Today it was leaked by Wall Street managers that Senator Sander’s and Warren’s proposals will devastate the stock market. Why? Because taxing wealthy individuals with accumulated capital are the primary source of investment for equity funds and entrepreneurial angel capital. Taxing them will force them to protect their capital rather than invest it. Warren’s response was to call such Wall Street leaders irresponsible and greedy. She begs the question. Eliminating investment opportunity destroys economic prosperity.
The Symbiosis within the Democratic Party is a result of ideologies in conflict with each other that are also dependent upon each other in building a consensus to defeat President Donald Trump. Progressives demanding purity of not only purpose but of past relationships build a recipe for the defeat of all left-wing policy. This situation is beyond a symbiotic relationship. This conflict is an all-out war for the soul of the Democratic Party. Only one crusader can survive.
Committing to move the country to socialism as the Justice Democrats demand is perilous for two reasons. One, they are tempting to embrace the past failures of totalitarian government. Two, only totalitarian governments can enforce socialism. China is the latest country to incorporate communism. There, citizens are given a number reflecting their obedience index. There is no bill of Rights in the Chinese constitution. It would be one thing if any example, meritable of review, where socialism had produced the desired results then consideration of its tenants could be appropriate. Socialism has been tried, it has always failed, it has always collapsed, and it has seldom collapsed peacefully.
Bernie Sander’s idea of Democratic Socialism is an oxymoronic concept. One does not have to cite Venezuela today where there are currently riots in the streets wherein citizens are protesting the socialistic policies of President Maduro. The reason why it is not necessary to cite it is that it is absolutely no surprise.
Joe Biden, in his formative political years, learned his trade in an era where big government wrestled with big business for the managed outcome of stable middle-class jobs. The currency was managed to support the pricing of wages and the cost of living. He is no conservative, but he is no socialist either.
Joe Biden represents a past from which the Democrats are trying to extricate themselves.
The question is extricate themselves into what future environment? Declaring the failure of capitalism as a structure and the anticipated hope of socialism as an opportunity is denying the reality of history as if it didn't exist.
Citizens when Sorting Symbiosis of political ideological conflict must exercise analysis through the lens of freedom. Nothing matters more in the final judgment of a policy’s benefit to society than the measure of its impact on liberty and freedom.
For the advancement of freedom is the purpose of government’s relationship with mankind.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?