There is so much noise in the political world these days that it is sometimes hard to figure out what is actually happening. Important issues get swallowed up by talking points and outright lies. Ideology and political "religions" are more important to many than achieving positive results. Political correctness frequently prevents the truth from being uttered. I could spend five hours listing examples, but anyone who has paid the slightest attention to America's political discourse for the last decade knows exactly what I mean.
So where do we go from here? Will the current mess just continue? Will there be some sort of sea change that rescues us from all the nonsense? No man knows the future, but we can plan for it nevertheless.
Simply put, the future will belong to the political party that brings back the open and honest truth. Americans will coalesce around those who present actual facts, face actual problems and propose real solutions that resolve basic difficulties. Lincoln was correct: you just cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Even after what was the most dishonest election cycle of recent history, the truth is still something which can and will triumph in the long run.
Americans need a pro-growth agenda. This may seem like an obvious truth, but it is one that has been lost in the mists of what passes for political discourse these days. There are too many folks who have never even been told in simple terms the end result of many of today's current policies. Let's do a thought exercise. Ask yourself this question:
Which of these would you prefer:
1. an economy that is strongly growing so that it creates large numbers of good jobs and so that it provides the opportunity for individual Americans to live prosperous lives; or
2. an economy which is guarantees that nearly everyone has roughly the same income so that there are no extremes of poverty or wealth?
This is not an unusual question. Indeed, it is one of the basic questions over which the entire Cold War was fought. Historically, Americans have always chosen option 1 above. Only now that the Soviet Union is no more has the group supporting option 2 risen to prominence. Sadly, however, much of the discussion of this choice has been disguised and the truth has practically been hidden. Think about it. How often have you heard that the choice of option two leads to an economy where everyone is equally poor? In other words, how often have you heard a clear and simple explanation that the effort to bring economic equality to a society has in the past uniformly resulted in low growth, stagnation and declining levels of prosperity for everyone? Certainly there are those who discuss this, but there that discussion is kept on the periphery of society; it is not directed at the mass in the center. If one gives an American worker the choice between knowing that his or her kids will have the chance to achieve great success through hard work and a bit of luck or the guarantee of having pretty much the same as everyone else, namely equality and poverty, the results are an overwhelming selection of opportunity rather than impoverished equality.
It is time for political leaders to recognize this reality and to change accordingly. A candidate who brightly and optimistically tells this truth and offers a well reasoned path to the prefered outcome will waltz into office. The issue moving forward is not the branding of the parties. It is not the nonsense that passes for politics in our country. That issue is the future of America and how it can be made great again.
So where do we go from here? Will the current mess just continue? Will there be some sort of sea change that rescues us from all the nonsense? No man knows the future, but we can plan for it nevertheless.
Simply put, the future will belong to the political party that brings back the open and honest truth. Americans will coalesce around those who present actual facts, face actual problems and propose real solutions that resolve basic difficulties. Lincoln was correct: you just cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Even after what was the most dishonest election cycle of recent history, the truth is still something which can and will triumph in the long run.
Americans need a pro-growth agenda. This may seem like an obvious truth, but it is one that has been lost in the mists of what passes for political discourse these days. There are too many folks who have never even been told in simple terms the end result of many of today's current policies. Let's do a thought exercise. Ask yourself this question:
Which of these would you prefer:
1. an economy that is strongly growing so that it creates large numbers of good jobs and so that it provides the opportunity for individual Americans to live prosperous lives; or
2. an economy which is guarantees that nearly everyone has roughly the same income so that there are no extremes of poverty or wealth?
This is not an unusual question. Indeed, it is one of the basic questions over which the entire Cold War was fought. Historically, Americans have always chosen option 1 above. Only now that the Soviet Union is no more has the group supporting option 2 risen to prominence. Sadly, however, much of the discussion of this choice has been disguised and the truth has practically been hidden. Think about it. How often have you heard that the choice of option two leads to an economy where everyone is equally poor? In other words, how often have you heard a clear and simple explanation that the effort to bring economic equality to a society has in the past uniformly resulted in low growth, stagnation and declining levels of prosperity for everyone? Certainly there are those who discuss this, but there that discussion is kept on the periphery of society; it is not directed at the mass in the center. If one gives an American worker the choice between knowing that his or her kids will have the chance to achieve great success through hard work and a bit of luck or the guarantee of having pretty much the same as everyone else, namely equality and poverty, the results are an overwhelming selection of opportunity rather than impoverished equality.
It is time for political leaders to recognize this reality and to change accordingly. A candidate who brightly and optimistically tells this truth and offers a well reasoned path to the prefered outcome will waltz into office. The issue moving forward is not the branding of the parties. It is not the nonsense that passes for politics in our country. That issue is the future of America and how it can be made great again.
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