{"id":2454,"date":"2019-10-29T05:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T09:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2019-10-29T05:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T09:43:29","slug":"fall-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/fall-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eyes on the Prize<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrea Mitchell of NBC News interviewed Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Perez gave this advice to Democrats in the primary process:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI hope you fall in love with multiple people, and then fall in line when we get the nominee\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msnbc\/status\/1143943018833203200?lang=en\">NBC<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was lots of criticism about his statement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Members of the Democratic Party are notoriously strong headed; the concept of \u201cfalling in line\u201d is not really what Democrats do.&nbsp;&nbsp;We\u2019re more like \u201cherding cats:\u201d we will never be \u201cin line\u201d but hopefully will all meander in the same direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what Perez meant was clear.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are lots of candidates running for the nomination for President of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp;Perez wants Democrats to get involved, get excited, and get to the polls for the primaries.&nbsp;&nbsp;And when that process is over, and the convention chooses one of them to run against Donald Trump (or whoever is standing in his place) then we need put our efforts behind that candidate.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our eyes need to be on the prize, removing Trumpism, and winning the Presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Pledge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So as a Democrat, less than 100 days from the beginning at the Iowa caucuses, I\u2019m working on \u201cfalling in love\u201d with a candidate.&nbsp;&nbsp;But regardless of the choice I make today, I make a pledge to Mr. Perez:&nbsp;&nbsp;I will \u201cfall in line\u201d after the convention, and put my energies behind whoever we decide will be the Democratic nominee, even if it\u2019s Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t the one I\u2019m falling in love with.&nbsp;&nbsp;So lets examine the candidates in light of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incremental Change<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If the United States was \u201ctable rasa,\u201d a blank slate, then I would be all-in for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. The goals of Social Democrats, including universal public health care, are ideas that I agree with.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I also have been a participant and student of politics for my entire life, and I don\u2019t see the United States making the kind of massive changes that those candidates demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a nation of incremental change.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even in the Great Depression, really the last chance for the overarching changes that the Social Democrats want, the US made what really are modest changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The New Deal was practical and worked within the framework of a capitalist democracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Like it or not, that&#8217;s what the nation would accept then, even in their moment of extreme economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our nation is in a crisis today.&nbsp;&nbsp;The income inequality that exists, with the top 10% holding 70% of the wealth, and the top 1% having 29% of the total wealth; is unsustainable in a democracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is particularly true in our democracy, where the Courts have ruled that free speech means unlimited spending in political campaigns.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the United States is primed for a change, but not for the \u201crevolution\u201d that Sanders and Warren want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Environment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The one area where incremental change may not be possible is the looming environmental crisis.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need to change, and change right now, to avoid the worst of the climatic changes we have created.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whoever the Democratic candidate is, they must have a commitment to make dramatic changes to the current \u201cback to the fifties\u201d vision.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the Democrats have a plan, and all of the candidates will do a better job.&nbsp;&nbsp;But it is clear that the answers of the past decades haven\u2019t provided a solution for the future.&nbsp;&nbsp;We need a new plan, and a leader to make it work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Health Insurance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is ready for everyone to have health care.&nbsp;&nbsp;But a substantial number of Americans want to keep the private insurance they now have.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a \u201cdeal breaker\u201d for many, so much so that whoever the Democratic candidate for President is, there must be some provision in their health care plan to allow for private insurance.&nbsp;&nbsp;This puts Sanders and Warren out, and Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Booker, Biden and some others in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t include a public option insurance plan, and it doesn\u2019t mean the government shouldn\u2019t be able to control drug costs.&nbsp;&nbsp;That should be a part of every Democratic health care plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Corporate Loyalty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It is clear that many US corporations are loyal only to their shareholders.&nbsp;&nbsp;There seems to be no greater loyalty to 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