16th November 2016, 9:01 AM
That's good, because I was getting rather tired of hearing so very many democrats act like the only thing they did wrong was not shift to the right ENOUGH. It's a rhetoric I'm still hearing here and there.
If your idea of appealing to the other side is to show them how progressive policies help them too, we're on the same page. It does need to go further. Just like things such as affirmative action specifically target a specific group of people and their particular needs, we need policies that specifically target rural America's problems. My suggested laws regulating how US based companies can pay overseas employees I think would go a long way to bringing work back to America, which is what rural places need to actually sustain their lives in the long term. Of course companies won't like it, but I'm okay with that. Of course consumers are going to pay the price when a lot of these companies pass the added cost onto us (instead of lowering pay for the board of directors), but that won't last either if they go too far with it. (Locally, my ISP has been steadily raising it's prices every time some new regulation is passed on them by the FCC, and wow is it transparent, but that doesn't mean the FCC is wrong, it means that my ISP is wrong, and I'm just about ready to switch to some competition that's gained some traction here lately).
If your idea of appealing to the other side is to show them how progressive policies help them too, we're on the same page. It does need to go further. Just like things such as affirmative action specifically target a specific group of people and their particular needs, we need policies that specifically target rural America's problems. My suggested laws regulating how US based companies can pay overseas employees I think would go a long way to bringing work back to America, which is what rural places need to actually sustain their lives in the long term. Of course companies won't like it, but I'm okay with that. Of course consumers are going to pay the price when a lot of these companies pass the added cost onto us (instead of lowering pay for the board of directors), but that won't last either if they go too far with it. (Locally, my ISP has been steadily raising it's prices every time some new regulation is passed on them by the FCC, and wow is it transparent, but that doesn't mean the FCC is wrong, it means that my ISP is wrong, and I'm just about ready to switch to some competition that's gained some traction here lately).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)