| Title | Post Boost | Reach | Like | Comments | Shares | Clicks | Hide | Hideall | Cost | Topic |
| What should be the Democratic program of the future? | 2021-12-22 | - | politics | |||||||
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-12-03 | - | politics | |||||||
| Bradley talked every day back then about the landmark tax | 2021-12-03 | - | politics | |||||||
| The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating | 2021-12-01 | - | politics | |||||||
| In churches with congregational polity, confronting | 2021-11-19 | 15 | 2 | politics | ||||||
| What's a Democrat? | 2021-11-07 | 12 | - | 1 | politics | |||||
| Just when you think politics couldn't POSSIBLY get any | 2021-10-29 | 8 | - | 1 | politics | |||||
| The base or the swing? | 2021-10-27 | 12 | - | 1 | politics | |||||
| The politically-aware-and-active class understands the | 2021-10-21 | 6 | - | politics | ||||||
| Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives | 2021-10-11 | 7 | - | 1 | politics | |||||
| Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. | 2021-02-10 | 18 | - | 1 | politics |
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========== What should be the Democratic program of the future? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html 1) build for the future - inexpensive child care, medical care, and education through community college for everybody too young to vote. 2) honor the past - inexpensive medical care and survival for everybody too old or disabled to work. 3) protect the present - with guaranteed basic income support for every adult who supports democracy by voting. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html 4) all paid for by a transparent flat tax on all income. https://www.one-flat-tax.net/ Focus on these which points have enough universal appeal to voters that they might possibly overcome the tremendous campaign finance advantage that the ruling class deploys to prevent change. Focus on smaller divisive issues risks confusing culture wars funded by the ruling class. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And get ready for regional federalism if the ruling class wins. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1politics https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What should be the Democratic program of the future? topic politics wordrate 0 words 134 epoch Lifetime ID 1565252883819225 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/22/2021 16:12" title "What is the positive Democratic message" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1565252883819225 ========== Unclear on the concept! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/02/shutdown-looms-donna-edwards/ Unending drama and last-minute rescues are essentials of reality-TV. Most voters SAY they want Congress to DO something about their problems, but they keep electing reality-TV drama queens and kings whose greatest aspiration is to get on Fox. Cable TV is bad enough, but social media are just making the obsession with celebrity worse. Leading by example, these influencers lead very ordinary people to obtain celebrity the only way they know how - by getting a gun and using it. And of course, numerous foreign entities have an interest in fanning divisiveness and dysfunction in American politics. They can do so with discreetly laundered campaign contributions and discreetly disguised social media echobots. Or with traditional media like OAN. #PS1politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Unclear on the concept! topic politics wordrate 0 words 123 epoch Lifetime ID 1552552991755881 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/03/2021 16:12" title "Opinion | Why does Congress only act at the last minute?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552552991755881 ========== Bradley talked every day back then about the landmark tax reform law he’d written and his plan to rid politics of corrosive corporate money. Two absolutely vital fundamental issues in which most voters have no knowledge and no interest beyond how will it affect me right now, and in which almost no legislators or candidates are eager to enlighten voters about how you actually get the money to actually get elected to Congress. wisdom and narcissism can’t coexist. The more you obsess about yourself, the less you’re learning about everyone else. It was good Bradley got out with his mind and honor intact. Things have gone downhill faster than anybody would have predicted. Reality-TV is not reality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/03/bill-bradley-reticent-politician-takes-stage-reminds-what-we-lose-by-choosing-celebrities/ #PS1politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-03 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Bradley talked every day back then about the landmark tax topic politics wordrate 0 words 118 epoch Lifetime ID 1552542478423599 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/03/2021 16:12" title "Opinion | Bill Bradley, reticent politician, puts on a show at last" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1552542478423599 ========== The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating opposition. And if you don't, you'll get opposed for doing nothing. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html The Reagan-Biden analogy - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/biden-reagan-approval.html All good presidents have been extremely unpopular with significant numbers of voters during their terms - including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, and Grant, to name some whose portraits are now on our money. Antitrust enforcement, social security, armed forces integration, medicare, voting and civil rights legislation, ACA - all bitterly opposed at the time - are why we remember Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, LBJ, and Obama as great leaders despite their faults. #PS1politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-12-01 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The price of doing something, or even trying, is generating topic politics wordrate 0 words 98 epoch Lifetime ID 1551105318567315 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/01/2021 11:12" title "Opinion | The Ronald Reagan Guide to Joe Biden’s Political Future" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551105318567315 ========== In churches with congregational polity, confronting a polarizing issue and resolving it, no matter how, usually means losing a pastor and a good many members. But the congregation is better off to have excised the thorn in its flesh. It's no different in national politics. Any leader that gets significant change enacted can expect to be punished in the next election by the people that didn't like the change. But later history remembers positively the leaders that effected positive change no matter the cost at the time. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-stimulus-bill.html Antitrust enforcement, social security, armed forces integration, medicare, voting and civil rights legislation, ACA - all bitterly opposed at the time - are why we remember Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, LBJ, and Obama as great leaders despite their faults. #PS1politics ===== impact 25 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2021-11-19 ratio 7 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title In churches with congregational polity, confronting topic politics wordrate 0 words 127 engaged 2 epoch Lifetime ID 1543244716020042 impress 15 likeimpress 2 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/19/2021 16:11" reach 15 title "Opinion | Joe Biden Is Succeeding" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543244716020042 ========== What's a Democrat? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-biden-virginia-new-jersey-infrastructure/2021/11/07/d5811f7e-3e43-11ec-bfad-8283439871ec_story.html Thanks to Trump, the answer is easy. Democrats are the fact-based party; the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP is the fantasy-based party. The two pillars of Democratic fact-based politics should be political democracy and economic democracy. Agreeing on facts does not imply agreeing on solutions, so there are factions. But the fact-based need to work together until the fantasy-based get back to earth. #PS1politics ===== impact 7 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-11-07 ratio 12 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title What's a Democrat? topic politics wordrate 0 words 65 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1535152776829236 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/07/2021 19:11" reach 12 sharesimpress 1 title "Democrats search for political identity amid dismal election results and legislative triumph" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1535152776829236 ========== Just when you think politics couldn't POSSIBLY get any crazier - a guy was proselytizing for the LaRouche PAC outside a post office today, with posters saying Trump can't do it by himself! You remember the late Lyndon LaRouche, right? A perpetual presidential candidate, in sui generis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche Evidently he still has committed followers and a PAC! https://www.larouchepac.com/ Presumably these are the same followers who proselytized for him in Sproul Plaza in the 1970's. It's doubtful that Trump would disown any supporters no matter how crazy. #PS1politics ===== impact 9 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-29 ratio 8 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Just when you think politics couldn't POSSIBLY get any topic politics wordrate 0 words 86 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1529184900759357 impress 8 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/29/2021 21:10" reach 8 title "RoucheP" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1529184900759357 ========== The base or the swing? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/26/campaigning-middle-out-wont-save-democrats/ There are two possible paths to winning close elections - maximizing turnout of the base and influencing persuadable swing voters. The ideal is to do both, but that is seldom possible, because ideological and non-ideological voters think differently and decide differently. The best approach to one group is often fatal for the other. So politicians try to weasel-word their way into appealing to both groups. That['s why it's so hard to get a comprehensible answer to the simplest questions. So Democrats divide on whether to cater toward the middle or toward the edge. But what's certain is that if nothing significant is passed, the base will be discouraged and the persuadables will be uninterested. So what's the best POSSIBLE outcome here? Politics is the art of the possible. Soon we should see whether Biden, or any other Democrat, is a master of politics - determing what's possible and realizing it. GOP has a simpler task. They say as little as possible about the legislation they intend to actually pass, mostly relief for suffering billionaires to fortify minority rule by a hereditary nobility. Instead they stoke culture wars that they hope will inflame their base and appeal to persuadables. Their challenge is to somehow manage Trump to fire up the base without repelling the persuadables. #PS1politics ===== impact 22 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-27 ratio 12 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title The base or the swing? topic politics wordrate 0 words 220 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1527531077591406 impress 13 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/27/2021 17:10" reach 12 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | Campaigning ‘from the middle out’ won’t save Democrats" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1527531077591406 ========== The politically-aware-and-active class understands the policies and issues and votes accordingly, usually on a partisan basis. But, as usual, control of Congress in2022 will be largely up to persuadable swing voters in swing states, who don't follows policies and issues and just vote their pocketbooks for or against the party in power. The Trump base will vote GOP anyway - or else not at all. Thus the primary GOP strategy is to wreck the economy as much as possible, and blame it on the Democrats. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-elections-house-elections-congress-5ac0ececeadbb46895e67b48db5bbcf7 #PS1politics ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-21 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The politically-aware-and-active class understands the topic politics wordrate 0 words 86 epoch Lifetime ID 1523147321363115 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/21/2021 10:10" reach 6 title "Dems' domestic plans popular, but reward by voters unassured" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1523147321363115 ========== Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives to define themselves. They used to be Republicans, but they've been left behind by Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html How are these Renewers https://www.renewamericamovement.com/ different from their predecessors - https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/ Is there a significant voter base and donor base for traditional conservative values? It's hard to see. Most GOP voters and major donors seem to have come to terms with supporting cult of personality as a strategy to support minority rule, whether Trump or one of his bolder and abler would-be successors. It's not just Trump that's the problem; it's Trumpism and its whole-hearted embrace of lie-cheat-steal-fantasy in repudiation of the rational Enlightenment values of America's founders. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html Still, though one would like to think that a progressive-conservative party is possible, it doesn't stand much chance against the entrenched two-party system, nor much chance against the two established parties. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative What about an independent caucus within the Democratic House and Senate caucuses, corresponding to a campaign coalition to knock out vulnerable Trumpists? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1408449849499530 #PS1politics https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/2022-house-senate-trump.html ===== impact 16 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-10-11 ratio 7 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Another attempt by never-Trumpist traditional conservatives topic politics wordrate 0 words 161 engaged 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1516162935394887 impress 9 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/11/2021 10:10" reach 7 sharesimpress 1 title "Opinion | We Are Republicans With a Plea: Elect Democrats in 2022" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1516162935394887 ========== Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/what-if-republicans-actually-listened/ It's no longer Republicans vs Democrats; it's fantasy vs fact, and noisy public performance vs quiet productive legislating. The fantasists are doing their best to get the factuals out of the GOP - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-loyalty-trump/2021/02/10/f3f87e4c-6bc2-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html Perhaps the Republican legislators that don't want to be part of the Trump-Republican Party can form their own caucus and organize with the Democrats for a while. King and Sanders are independents but they caucus with Democrats. Republicans should be welcome if their goal were to solve problems rather than blind obstruction. Ideological litmus tests are not key - if they're as conservative as Joe Manchin they can make a positive contribution. There are a lot of ideas in the Democratic Party today, and no cult of personality. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative Long term, perhaps a new party will arise https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/11/gop-meeting-new-party-trump/ as the Trump Republicans complete the cycle by following their Whig progenitors into irrelevance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Collapse,_1853%E2%80%931856 #PS1politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/10/what-if-republicans-actually-listened/ ===== impact 15 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2021-02-10 ratio 18 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Time for a new caucus, if not a new party. topic politics wordrate 0 words 154 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 ID 1353303558347493 impress 20 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 15 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 20 oreach 18 posted "02/10/2021 05:05:01 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 18 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1353303558347493