Voters reject Democrat control freak government
Stanley Greenberg:
Democrat housing policy destroyed the US economy and much of the world's economy by forcing lenders to give loans to people who could not afford the housing. The loans were monetized and made good loans suspect and the falling housing values effected almost everyone.
Then instead of changing this bad policy, Democrats developed Dodd-Frank regulations to shift blame away from their bad housing policies and increase control freak government. There is good reason not to trust Democrats. They have never taken responsibility for the mess they have made, but have gone to great lengths to try to shift responsibility.
Democrats also pushed through a control freak health care plan that the majority of voters did not want and they resist repealing the monstrosity. Perhaps they think they can do for health care what they did for housing. For many of us it is just another reason not to trust them with political power.
...Why don't voters trust Democrats?
But in smaller, more probing focus groups, voters show they are fairly cynical about Democratic politicians’ stands. They tune out the politicians’ fine speeches and plans and express sentiments like these: “It’s just words.” “There’s just such a control of government by the wealthy that whatever happens, it’s not working for all the people; it’s working for a few of the people.” “We don’t have a representative government anymore.”
This distrust of government and politicians is unfolding as a full-blown crisis of legitimacy sidelines Democrats and liberalism. Just a quarter of the country is optimistic about our system of government — the lowest since polls by ABC and others began asking this question in 1974. But a crisis of government legitimacy is a crisis of liberalism. It doesn’t hurt Republicans. If government is seen as useless, what is the point of electing Democrats who aim to use government to advance some public end?
In earlier periods, confidence in the economy and rising personal incomes put limits on voter discontent. Today, a dispiriting economy combined with a well-developed critique of government leaves government not just distrusted but illegitimate.
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Democrat housing policy destroyed the US economy and much of the world's economy by forcing lenders to give loans to people who could not afford the housing. The loans were monetized and made good loans suspect and the falling housing values effected almost everyone.
Then instead of changing this bad policy, Democrats developed Dodd-Frank regulations to shift blame away from their bad housing policies and increase control freak government. There is good reason not to trust Democrats. They have never taken responsibility for the mess they have made, but have gone to great lengths to try to shift responsibility.
Democrats also pushed through a control freak health care plan that the majority of voters did not want and they resist repealing the monstrosity. Perhaps they think they can do for health care what they did for housing. For many of us it is just another reason not to trust them with political power.
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