Poll Question: Dec. 28, 2017

Dec. 26, 2017

4:36 p.m.

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Democrats can win only if they change

Democrats MUST acknowledge that we are NOT all EQUAL, and that people who get more work done (I did not say "try harder") can live at a higher level than those who do not get as much done. -- And that must include when they got more work done simply because they fit in to the work environment or community better.

Please note that I did not say that whites are better than blacks or browns, nor did I say that Evangelical Protestants are better than Catholics, Lutherans, atheists and Muslims... They are not automatically better. If their color or creed allows them to serve more, to sell more, to get along with co-workers better and that is why the work performance is better, then let them take home more pay.

If the white Christian salesman sells more because the customers are racist and don't want to deal with that Black salesclerk, so be it. If that black saleswoman sells more than the white woman because she is more polite and professional, then let her have her bigger paycheck than the white clerk who is rude and opinionated, even when the black woman has a working husband and the white woman is single with kids at home.

And for Gods sake, let the person who is working full-time without being on assistance live a better life than the person on assistance, and that includes making sure the assistance person may have no more than a voice-only "dumb-phone" instead of the latest Apple iPhone X.

I am sure that if Democrat candidates make that clear then they will be able to get the anti-top 1% votes that they need to survive against the party of big business and wealth and their absolute control over media and the campaign message -- and for God sake stop promoting Unions that get pay increases instead of a more fair and sensible work environment.

Classic "welfare" is okay if you give food to a hungry family instead of cash, if you give basic heated shelter instead of luxury digs, and warm, functional clothes instead of cash for Nordstrom. Here that? Survival free of crime, not "equal outcome" regardless of effort or ability.

Acknowledge that school is for education of people to their level of intelligence, it does not make a dumb person smart. School only makes smart people more educated and work-ready than an unschooled smart person, and school makes a dumb person more educated and work-ready than an unschooled dumb person, although for a different kind of job.

It is okay to be the party of "equal opportunity" just so long as Democrats do not enact policies that merely try to tax and spend their way to an "equal bank balance". Yes, I agree that simply taxing those who work without fancy tax schedules and writing checks without verifying against fraud means less paid bureaucratic staff than setting up a public infrastructure that delivers services instead of cash redistribution, but you have to sell them on it with practical examples and common sense reasons. It is okay to hire more people if they can manage them so the dead-beats are fired.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 6 years ago