Kama Kama Kamala can, page-11

disallowed/world/north-america/hero-to-political-toast-the-achievement-harris-should-keep-quiet-about-20240726-p5jwrf.html

Where I have over-typed xxx replace with smh … a few excerpts below …

[[[[[ ….. Is this voteless boom because the growth was a natural post-COVID rebound, nothing to do with the government? No. “The great paradox” of a doddering president, according to London’s The Economist, “is that he has presided over perhaps the most energetic American government in nearly half a century ….. ]]]]]

[[[[[ ….. They argue that for an authoritarian – read Donald Trump – to succeed, he simply feeds on people’s unhappiness without needing to do anything to actually fix the sources of it.

But a progressive party – read the Democrats, or Labor – needs to make people feel happy in ways that include but transcend economic benefit, they argue: “Economic changes may be at the root of what ails us, but they are refracted through people’s lived experience with things like violence, addiction, mental health problems, social isolation, loneliness, and a sense of social disintegration.” …. ]]]]]

It’s a great article that presents a sensible response to the conundrum about Biden getting no credit for policies that stabilised and then ushered in the strongest economy and employment in the western world … yes Biden was having his seniors moments, but as I have thought and said in other posts, he led an effective, active, focused administration that would largely be intact for a President Harris

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