When a policy has lasted forty years across both parties’ having periods of absolute governing power, one can’t really pin a policy on a single party anymore.
Your point makes slightly more sense if you’re talking about the US instead. I still think it’s silly to ascribe equal blame to the instigators of the idea and a party that fails to push the tide the other way because of inertia and political expediency.
I mean the centre ground if fucked over there, so you have my sympathy.
It’s not inertia, though. The Dems have had the power to make meaningful change several times in the past four decades. Their failure to do so is a choice they’ve made repeatedly.
I am sure all those tax breaks for rich is going to work out… Any second now…
Trickle down economics has never worked, ever.
“But this time it will!” said conservatives.
When a policy has lasted forty years across both parties’ having periods of absolute governing power, one can’t really pin a policy on a single party anymore.
Oh come on. It’s very clear who the champions and vanguard of trickle down economics are. It’s fatuous to “both sides” this issue.
I think it’s objectively absurd to look at a 40-year old policy and try not to acknowledge that it’s been adopted by the Democratic Party.
This is a story about the UK…
Your point makes slightly more sense if you’re talking about the US instead. I still think it’s silly to ascribe equal blame to the instigators of the idea and a party that fails to push the tide the other way because of inertia and political expediency.
I mean the centre ground if fucked over there, so you have my sympathy.
Yeah, I was talking about the US.
It’s not inertia, though. The Dems have had the power to make meaningful change several times in the past four decades. Their failure to do so is a choice they’ve made repeatedly.