There’s a culturally significant and riveting scene in The Patriot, the 2000 Mel Gibson movie, where he plays an American colonist and father pulled into the Revolutionary War.
Thanks for your kind words about the work my team is doing in Sauk Prairie, Ryan.
We need to boldly support our public schools - and boldly reimagine how our schools will continue to serve our kids and communities. It is important and exciting work.
Go big or go home! That should be the Montana Democrats (and nationwide) mantra. If the old people can't handle that, then they'll need to get out of the way!
Those goals would all make a big difference, but the wealthy might actually have to help pay for them. Having spent my life in education, I have seen the downward slide with No Child Left Behind being the most laughable label ever. Getting money out of politics would change the landscape (as getting money into politics changed the landscape) but it feels unattainable because it has been like a runaway train. Sometimes I feel like the train has already run over me.
Ryan, there are two small "adjustments" (or lack of them) Democrats made. Whether or not either or both cost us '24 is anyone's guess. One was Harris' repeated public response that she wouldn't do anything different from Biden. So the target there was no target. The other was that Reagan's tax break in favor of the rich handed us a debt. (Which Clinton resolved.) Then Cheney/W's tax break in favor of the rich, while simultaneously starting a war they didn't fund, handed us a massive debt. Obama did not raise taxes on the rich, so the debt continued to rise. Donnie sent the debt into the stratosphere with yet another tax break favoring the rich. Biden also didn't raise taxes on the rich. And Donnie's making noise like he wants to destroy completely this country's fiscal state. Anybody who wanted to aim big, like Obama and Biden, had to raise taxes on the rich. They didn't. That accounts for a number of your other observations/complaints. Is it risky? Sure. Did you read JFK's "Profiles in Courage?" We need someone with the courage to aim big, and take the risk. Yeah, "the party of boldness...big ideas, and people who care enough to sell them."
Thanks for your kind words about the work my team is doing in Sauk Prairie, Ryan.
We need to boldly support our public schools - and boldly reimagine how our schools will continue to serve our kids and communities. It is important and exciting work.
Go big or go home! That should be the Montana Democrats (and nationwide) mantra. If the old people can't handle that, then they'll need to get out of the way!
Those goals would all make a big difference, but the wealthy might actually have to help pay for them. Having spent my life in education, I have seen the downward slide with No Child Left Behind being the most laughable label ever. Getting money out of politics would change the landscape (as getting money into politics changed the landscape) but it feels unattainable because it has been like a runaway train. Sometimes I feel like the train has already run over me.
Ryan, there are two small "adjustments" (or lack of them) Democrats made. Whether or not either or both cost us '24 is anyone's guess. One was Harris' repeated public response that she wouldn't do anything different from Biden. So the target there was no target. The other was that Reagan's tax break in favor of the rich handed us a debt. (Which Clinton resolved.) Then Cheney/W's tax break in favor of the rich, while simultaneously starting a war they didn't fund, handed us a massive debt. Obama did not raise taxes on the rich, so the debt continued to rise. Donnie sent the debt into the stratosphere with yet another tax break favoring the rich. Biden also didn't raise taxes on the rich. And Donnie's making noise like he wants to destroy completely this country's fiscal state. Anybody who wanted to aim big, like Obama and Biden, had to raise taxes on the rich. They didn't. That accounts for a number of your other observations/complaints. Is it risky? Sure. Did you read JFK's "Profiles in Courage?" We need someone with the courage to aim big, and take the risk. Yeah, "the party of boldness...big ideas, and people who care enough to sell them."
You're absolutely correct on all this. I'll share immediately.