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How to make progress in the next four years by Jeff vonKaenel
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The election is over. The results are in. And the from charging more in America than they charge outcome is painfully clear. Our country remains overseas. The Democrats must overcome their deeply divided. fear of Big Pharma. Joe Biden received 81 million votes, but Repeal tax breaks for the rich and hedge fund Donald Trump received 74 million votes. In a operators. The vast majority of Americans support time when a president needs a clear mandate to increasing the taxes on the rich. So let’s do it. create change, Biden and the Democrats do not With the money this will raise, we can support have it. The Senate is currently in Republican infrastructure and green energy projects that will hands, the Democrats barely have a majority in create blue-collar jobs. the House and the Supreme Court is controlled by The left needs to revise our political priorities right-wing zealots. away from issues that increase polarization and So what to do? look for issues where we can get majority support. I am a very liberal Democrat. I We need to build coalitions. We need to support increasing taxes on the listen to and understand the issues rich, making serious of the disenfranchised people If we want environmental changes to who voted for Trump. reduce climate change, White voters without to accomplish enforcing antitrust a college degree favored anything in the next regulations, breaking Trump over Biden by four years, we need up the tech companies, 35 percentage points, reforming the criminal according to exit polls. to find common ground justice system, This election should be with people who have recognizing systemic a wake-up call for the racism, reducing our left, encouraging us to a radically different defense budget, find common ground with vision of America. legislating gun control and these angry Trump voters. giving women control over If we can’t do that, we’ll face their reproductive choices. another four years of divisiveness This election did not give either and stalemates. I don’t think either side a mandate for their policy positions. our country, or my stomach lining, can take Rather, if we want to accomplish anything in the another four years of polarization. next four years, we need to find common ground Without Trump, many of his 74 million voters with people who have a radically different vision will be looking for the party that is looking out of America and who clearly felt betrayed by a for the little guy, that believes the system is rigged political and social system they believe is indiffer- against the working class, that isn’t controlled by ent and even hostile to their interests. If we want corporate interests. our country to come together, then we need to find I don’t think they are looking for the party of those issues that are both important and that can Sen. Mitch McConnell. It can be, and should be, be supported by a majority on both sides of the the Democratic Party. Ω political divide. Here are a few such issues: Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. This was supported by 60% of Florida Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the voters, who also backed Trump. News & Review newspapers in Sacramento, Chico and Reno Pass legislation to prevent drug companies