Americans – including 80% of those who support Donald J. Trump – will consider his tariff moves a failure before the end of 2025 if they remain unchanged. Democrats generally hate Trump; for Republicans it will be disappointment. Why? Over the past 60 years, average wages have gone down, but so has the price of […]
Read More →I’m tired of being angry. Democrats blast Americans who “elected crazy Donald Trump,” and Republicans blast liberals who “ruined the economy under Joe Biden.” I’m a Democrat because my top issue is human rights – the freedom for everyone to be who they are and live without fear, which includes some groups I don’t particularly […]
Read More →First published in The Orlando Sentinel, Oct. 22, 2018 Republicans believe that private business – free enterprise – will solve the nation’s problems, providing an ultra-small government backs off and doesn’t muck it up. Republicans are wrong. Democrats believe that private business has a corruptness about it, and a large government – a “we the […]
Read More →Originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, June 26, 2017, with a headline that sounded a tad more pro-Trump. A lot of people support Donald Trump, and here’s what liberals don’t get: Many, many people’s lives – largely but not exclusively in rural areas – have deteriorated over the past 20 years. In every political campaign, […]
Read More →Why do we spend so much time discussing the color of the Band-Aid and so little time discussing the depth of the wound? (A metaphor: The wound is healthcare; the Band-Aid is health insurance.) We discuss the details of competing health care plans from Republicans and Democrats, but we spend almost no time on the […]
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