Let America be Great Again!
We all know Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again!" Okay, not sure if the exclamation point is there or not, but since Jeb! is no longer using it, I though why not. What is to argue with that?
It implies command as in "Hey, you there! Make america great again!" This is not a conservative slogan, it is a progressive slogan. It sounds like someone, in this case, Trump, will lead us to make this country what it was. Still loving it? I bet if progressives read this, they would start getting all warm and fuzzy about Trump. Maybe even get a tingle down their legs.
In the First Progressive Era, which began with the assassination of President, and his VP, a Progressive Republican took over. After William Taft replaced him, and rolled back his "reforms", he refused to follow his party's decision for a candidate in the next election. Failing to get the nomination, Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate under the banner of the Bull Moose Party. Not only did he lose, but he took enough from Taft, so that we were stuck with the uber Progressive, Woodrow Wilson. That sounds familiar today, with all the talk about people not supporting the party.
First with Roosevelt, and then with Wilson, the chains began to go on the economy. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, allowing an Income Tax was passed. It was foisted on the people with the stated intent of only taxing the richest. a 1% income tax on incomes above $3,000 and a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000. That didn't last long, by 1920 it had bloated to nearly 77%. This tax, which was sold on the intention of reducing the gap between the richest and the poorest, had the opposite effect. Today, no matter how much progressives try to put it to the rich, the gap just gets greater. My opinion is that those in the top bracket go underground when it comes to income. It happened then, it happens today. Who gets hurt? Those entrepreneurs who are trying to build companies, and break into the economy. They can't afford to hide money, they need every penny for their businesses. And because the rich are sitting on their wealth, there is no capital to build new businesses, or the economy. Today it is manifested in the rich playing the stock market, paying capital gains taxes, which are lower, rather than investing. Chain.
The Seventeenth Amendment took away the last vestige of power from the states. No longer did they have a voice in DC. The people, who could easily be a mob, now had two houses, with one house, the Senate, relatively immune from the immediate effects of legislation, not facing the electorate for up to six years. Chain.
Congress surrendering their law making authority to the Executive Branch, by letting the Executive fill in the blanks on the law through regulation. Chain. The progressive era was paused by the Presidencies of Harding and Coolidge. A Republican followed, Herbert Hoover, but he led in the second progressive era of Hoover and Roosevelt. The progressives were here to stay.
Donald Trump made some comments that should have repulsed any conservative. He said that three things the federal government should do included 1. Security (Agree), and then 2. Healthcare, and 3. Education. Why this wasn't the headline for every conservative on TV, radio, and internet? His faux position on abortion was exposed by offending pro-life and pro-choice people by saying that the woman should be punished for an abortion. He back pedaled, but it was obvious he was just saying what he thought pro-life people think. We don't.
Let America be Great Again! What a slogan! Unleash the American spirit. Let those that are not the super rich have a shot. Maybe I can sell it to Gary Johnson. Although, I am well aware of history, and the likelihood of a third party doing anything other than give the election to Clinton.
It implies command as in "Hey, you there! Make america great again!" This is not a conservative slogan, it is a progressive slogan. It sounds like someone, in this case, Trump, will lead us to make this country what it was. Still loving it? I bet if progressives read this, they would start getting all warm and fuzzy about Trump. Maybe even get a tingle down their legs.
In the First Progressive Era, which began with the assassination of President, and his VP, a Progressive Republican took over. After William Taft replaced him, and rolled back his "reforms", he refused to follow his party's decision for a candidate in the next election. Failing to get the nomination, Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate under the banner of the Bull Moose Party. Not only did he lose, but he took enough from Taft, so that we were stuck with the uber Progressive, Woodrow Wilson. That sounds familiar today, with all the talk about people not supporting the party.
First with Roosevelt, and then with Wilson, the chains began to go on the economy. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, allowing an Income Tax was passed. It was foisted on the people with the stated intent of only taxing the richest. a 1% income tax on incomes above $3,000 and a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000. That didn't last long, by 1920 it had bloated to nearly 77%. This tax, which was sold on the intention of reducing the gap between the richest and the poorest, had the opposite effect. Today, no matter how much progressives try to put it to the rich, the gap just gets greater. My opinion is that those in the top bracket go underground when it comes to income. It happened then, it happens today. Who gets hurt? Those entrepreneurs who are trying to build companies, and break into the economy. They can't afford to hide money, they need every penny for their businesses. And because the rich are sitting on their wealth, there is no capital to build new businesses, or the economy. Today it is manifested in the rich playing the stock market, paying capital gains taxes, which are lower, rather than investing. Chain.
The Seventeenth Amendment took away the last vestige of power from the states. No longer did they have a voice in DC. The people, who could easily be a mob, now had two houses, with one house, the Senate, relatively immune from the immediate effects of legislation, not facing the electorate for up to six years. Chain.
Congress surrendering their law making authority to the Executive Branch, by letting the Executive fill in the blanks on the law through regulation. Chain. The progressive era was paused by the Presidencies of Harding and Coolidge. A Republican followed, Herbert Hoover, but he led in the second progressive era of Hoover and Roosevelt. The progressives were here to stay.
Donald Trump made some comments that should have repulsed any conservative. He said that three things the federal government should do included 1. Security (Agree), and then 2. Healthcare, and 3. Education. Why this wasn't the headline for every conservative on TV, radio, and internet? His faux position on abortion was exposed by offending pro-life and pro-choice people by saying that the woman should be punished for an abortion. He back pedaled, but it was obvious he was just saying what he thought pro-life people think. We don't.
Let America be Great Again! What a slogan! Unleash the American spirit. Let those that are not the super rich have a shot. Maybe I can sell it to Gary Johnson. Although, I am well aware of history, and the likelihood of a third party doing anything other than give the election to Clinton.
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