Krugman is not the Problem

Krugman is what he is, an economist that has a better understanding of the US economy than most other economists. He is schooled in Economics and still managed to keep a pretty objective view of things. So what do his detractors have to contribute?

The Average American has no idea of how our economy works and as a result we are herded like sheep to the slaughter. The Democratic Party has become a Corporate Party. Clinton in the 1990's as an outsider President could not get Democrats to work with him to get things done so he turned to the Republicans and got what he could. It is not help that he was married to a former Republican that still has Corporate Leanings.

What good is it to have two parties when they are the same. We need a Conservative and Liberal Party, or even better several of each. We need to pull out of the cowering mode that Democrats have been in ever since Reagan ridicules them and Liberals, using the "L" word classification to ridicule the Political Philosophy of FDR. I do not know what a Progressive is, except it is not Liberal. At best Progressives are moving, but it not clear the direction they are moving or at what speed.

To fight Trump we need people in office who know where they are going and can articulate that with a passion that will get the Liberal Voter out to the polls. In short Democrats need to quit being victims. We have the right issues and in the past when we sold them we won. We do not have Abortion Rights and Gay Rights because we were victims, but because we sold the Idea that these rights were Human Rights and positive for the Country.

We are in a back lash era with Trump, but do not mistake our adversaries. If Democrats do what other winning liberal candidates have done and articulated the strength of these basic rights, we can stem the Trump Tide. (not really a tide, but more like back wash.