We like the cool green look of a grass yard, but want to be water-wise with the new home we'll be building soon near Sioux City, Iowa. For trees and ornamentals we'll use drip irrigation. It may be heretical, but we're thinking of artificial turf. Over a 15-year period, what are the costs--sod, installation, water, fertilizer, moving, weeding-- of real grass versus artificial turf landscaping?
Hi Becky, this is a complicated question and can depend a lot on several big variables; how large your yard is going to be and how much lawn work you do yourself and how much a lawn service does. A lot can also depend on how much different costs are in Sioux City, Iowa as compared to where I live on the east coast.
For the sake of this example I'm going to figure that you are going to have about 1/2 acre of lawn as most people seed rather than sod areas larger than that. Where I live sod costs about $2 per square yard to purchase and $2 per square yard to install. A half acre is 2420 square yards so you are talking about approximately $9,680 to install sod on your lawn. If the sod is properly maintained it should be pretty good for 15 years other than some minor patching on occasion.
My neighbor pays about $40 a week to have her lawn mowed and it's approximately a half acre so lets say you have your lawn mowed every week for 7 months of the year. That comes to about $1,120 a year and $16,800 for 15 years.
Watering can vary a lot depending on how often it rains and how green you want your lawn. The area I live in is farming country and people don't water their lawns; they water their gardens. However, I have built homes in Country Club communities and I know many homeowners there spent around $100 a month in the spring and summer watering their lawns. So let's figure half that amount for 6 months each year which would total $300 and $4,500 for 15 years.
That comes to almost $50,000 for installing and maintaining a sod lawn on a half acre lawn for 15 years. Again keep in mind that a some of these costs could be a lot lower such as if you did your own mowing and fertilizing. You could even have a sod farm right next to you there in Sioux City, Iowa and pay half what I have figured for sod.
Okay, now for the artificial turf costs. There are a lot of companies that have artificial turf products for residential use and costs can vary based on the company you choose and which product you have installed. You will need to have the company install their product and costs can range from $8 to $20 a square foot depending on the product. Let's take an average of $14 a square foot for a half acre which is 21780 square feet; that comes to $304,920 which might explain why people with large yards rarely use artificial turf for their lawns. If you have a very small yard it might be well worth it to use artificial turf, but if you have a large yard, unless you hit the Iowa lottery you might want to stick with sod or seed.


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(Review) Taste
Taste by Tracy Ewens
Pages: 320 (kindle)
My Goodreads Rating: 2 Stars
If only life were as simple as following a recipe.
In her twenties, Kara Malendar found herself at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris, thousands of miles away from the harsh media coverage of her political family. But Paris ended abruptly when she was summoned home to Los Angeles and expected to stand in again as the senator's perfect daughter.
Now, thirty, Kara has made a different kind of life for herself. As a food critic for the Los Angeles Times, she casts a critical eye on other people. That is, until her past finds his way back into town and opens a new restaurant.
Logan Rye, the youngest son of the Ryeland Farms family, is a chef and knows exactly what he's doing with his life. After a few years spent getting his head and heart together, he's opened a new farm-to-table restaurant, The Yard, in Los Angeles. It's his passion, but according to the LA Times, he's a trend.
Kara and Logan haven't seen each other since she left him in the lobby of her Paris apartment building, but when she is asked to write a feature on him, it's not long before they are rediscovering the delicious parts of each other. As things heat up, all recipes are forgotten, and Kara and Logan realize nothing was what it seemed in Paris.
If Logan can only find a way to trust, he may be exactly what Kara needs . . if she's ever going to taste life again
I went into this one ready for swoons and smiles, but I was a little disappointed. This is the third book in the Love Story series, but it is the only one I have picked up so far.
Kara is a ruthless food critic and Logan is a chef/restaurant owner. Kara gets asked to do a feature on Logan and the success of The Yard, his business. Fun ensues, right?
Apparently Kara and Logan have a history from when they were in Paris together and she broke his heart when she left. I thought this was a great plot point, only nothing ever happened with it. We got barely any peeks into their time in Paris together, nor was there an actual explanation as to why Kara was whisked away so suddenly.
Kara's father is a senator, so she was in Paris under a fake name. A fake name that she also uses in the present day story to create lamps. What?
There were so many things going on with both of the characters that I hardly felt like I got to know either one of them. Logan was a chef, farmer, restaurant owner, family caregiver. It was like they had so much going on with themselves that they didn't even have time to fall in love withe each other.
When the two of them first met it was all sniping and bitchiness on both sides, and then suddenly they were kissing and in love again. I didn't see the process of it, and that's what I love to read.
I did like that Kara (a food critic) hadn't enjoyed eating because of her job and Logan brought that back to her. This story had a lot of potential, but I felt that it focused on way too many different things. The family drama, the side characters, the teeny tiny little details about everything could have been replaced by conversations where they were learning more about each other and sharing their lives rather than being rude to each other. I just felt like the romance was lacking form this title.
Thanks to NetGalley and Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) for the ARC.
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438 Belkin 3m USB 2.0 Printer Extension Cable - Black   https://amazon.com/electronics/computers-components-and-accessories/printers-and-accessories/printers/belkin-3m-usb-2.0-printer-extension-cable-black/  Add length to your USB cables when they can't quite reach their destination with the USB A/B Extension Cable. Stop struggling with short cables while connecting your printer, scanner, or hard drive, thanks to this convenient extension cable. This USB 2.0 cable delivers error-free data transmissions at up to 480Mbps, letting you send jobs to external devices and transfer files to and from your computer quickly.Supports up to 127 devices on a daisy-chain configuration.3m cable.For connecting USB Cable.Manufacturer's limited lifetime guarantee.EAN: 722868246405.       11.00 GBP       https://amazon.com/images/thumbnails/590/590/detailed/9/3082276_R_Z001A.jpg                 Electronics > Computers, Components & Accessories > Printers & Accessories > Printers
6   Toshiba 32C120U 32" Class 720P HD LCD TV    https://amazon.com/electronics/home-cinema-tv-and-video/plasma-tvs/toshiba-32c120u-32-class-720p-hd-lcd-tv/ Think you need to break your budget to enjoy blockbuster HD entertainment? Not with Toshiba's 32" class C110U LCD HDTV. Featuring all-new design, this value-packed television looks great and works well in a living room, kitchen or bedroom. Increase detail and depth of the images on your screen with our impressive Dynalight technology.        329.99 GBP      https://amazon.com/images/thumbnails/590/590/detailed/0/lcd-tv-32C120-01.jpg        Toshiba         Electronics > Home Cinema, TV & Video > Plasma TVs
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How can i read a row by the column name?

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Home » The world-experience-tree-climber, part 5
The Long Island seeker
When I first arrived in India, a bald-headed man came up to me near the Air India office in our hotel and said, "Sri Chinmoy? Sri Chinmoy?"
He said, "I can't believe it!" His eyes were swimming with tears. So soulfully he was shedding tears and embracing me. His soul knew who I am. He created a real scene in the hotel. So many people were watching!
He told me that he used to come to our meetings three years ago and then he stopped. He knows Adhiratha and he was telling me how Adhiratha stands next to my chair when he is guarding on stage on Wednesday nights. He also knows Sumantra and Ayoddhri.
He said he had come to India to visit some spiritual places, so I gave him the names of a few places to see. He said that he wants to start coming to our meetings in New York when he returns. He is a construction worker from Long island.
— 27 February 1986
Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 5, Agni Press, 1994
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Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 5.First published by Agni Press in 1994.
This is the 963rd book that Sri Chinmoy has written since he came to the West, in 1964.
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When it comes to this time of year, I usually whine a little. Not because I don't love Christmas or giving gifts, but because I have to figure out something different to do for my students once again.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE giving gifts to my students. It's just the process of making my brain think about what to do this year that makes me often procrastinate. After getting down to the wire a few years ago, I vowed never again and right after Christmas, I purchased my gifts for the following year (ornaments). Bye-bye stress.
Crafts are not my strong suit so my kiddos will most likely never get a hand-made craft from me. Since I love to cook, however, homemade goodies have made it into the mix frequently.
The gifts I do each year often have to do with where life is for me at the moment. Don't you agree? Some years money may be tight so gifts may be bulk-homemade and lest costly, and some years I may be too busy to put the effort into making something so I just purchase an item – even if it's a little more costly. I would say I have spent anywhere between $1.25 – $5 per student but my comfort zone is around the $3 mark. It adds up quickly with a full studio!
Symphony Extra Large Creamy Milk Chocolate Bar.
Decorate your studio Christmas Tree with student Christmas-gift ornaments. Let them choose their ornament off the tree at their last lesson before Christmas Break. I really like these black ones from Amazon. Hobby Lobby has some gold sparkly versions of this same ornament as well.
These Music Snowman Christmas Tree Ornaments are my choice for this particular year. Sara over at Sara's Music Studio made a fun suggestion to add a ribbon around the neck like a scarf. I'm not crafty, but that I can handle. Won't it be so cute!?
*Note: At the time of this post, the price on Amazon is $22.99 for a dozen. You can get these at Oriental Trading for $15.99 but with shipping at $6.99, it makes a total of $24.36 with tax. If you have Amazon Prime it's actually cheaper to order from Amazon!
Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix is a perfect gift. What kid doesn't love hot chocolate? I decorated mine similar to this image. It's simple but nice. Be sure and include the directions! Consider recipes that are made with powdered milk so students only have to add hot water. Along those same lines, don't do the layered-type cocoa mix where you have to dump the whole container into a pot to mix.
My favorite recipe is from Cook's Country, but since it's a paid recipe service, here are some other versions you could try from Pioneer Woman and AllRecipes.
Will the Japanese Eraser craze ever go away? I would be surprised if it did – they're just too cute! Students will love these grand piano erasers.
Purchase a mixture of black and red and let students choose. Based on what my students chose, I would suggest purchasing 30% red and 60% black. Or if you want to keep it simple, just go for the black!
To me, just handing them an eraser didn't seem like quite enough the year I used them, so I made "White Trash Puppy Chow" (yes, that's what the recipe was called) and attached the eraser to the bow.
I've even just given my students bags of regular puppy chow without the erasers attached. It makes a fine gift in and of itself!
What are you giving your students this year?
I usually find cheap classical music CDs on Amazon and gift those to my students. I find that many of my students don't listen to a lot of classical music, so it helps connect them with some of the music we play.
This year I had my logo printed onto spinners for only $ each and then I am adding a little booklet from a purchase I made from TPT with rhythm challenges that you do with the spinner as a "timer". I hope they don't all already have them ! I am coming in late on this trend!
I bought inexpensive black stretchy gloves on clearance last year at Target for $2.50 but have seen them at Walmart this year for $1.50. Took some puffy white fabric paint and squeezed out a bass clef on the left hand glove and treble clef on the right. Quick and easy.
See, now that's the kind of crafty, creative things I never think of! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Amy! Starting to think about gifts for my students. Don't want to give the candy filled candy canes again!


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itbusinessedge > Blogs > Data and Telecom > Researcher: A Half-Million Databases Are Unprotected
Researcher: A Half-Million Databases Are Unprotected
By Carl Weinschenk, Posted November 14, 2007
Yesterday we posted an item that suggested people are ignorant and/or lazy when it comes to security. This InfoWorld story -- which covers a researcher's claims that there are tons of database
Yesterday we posted an item that suggested people are ignorant and/or lazy when it comes to security. This InfoWorld story -- which covers a researcher's claims that there are tons of database servers on the Internet not protected by firewalls, and that many of these aren't even patched -- suggests that we were optimists.
The story discusses soon-to-be released research by David Litchfield, who runs Databasesecurity.com. His method was simple: He tried to access the Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database ports at more than 1 million randomly generated addresses. He found 157 SQL servers and 53 Oracle servers, which means that these machines have no firewall protection. He extrapolated using standard procedures and came up with estimates that 368,000 SQL servers and 124,000 Oracle databases are not protected. His conclusion is fairly straightforward:
People aren't protecting themselves with firewalls and the patch levels are atrocious.
Though there are a lot of laggards out there, good tools are being released on a regular basis. At this week's Oracle OpenWorld 2007 in San Francisco, Application Security Inc. said DbProtect now supports Oracle Database 11g. The porting was done in the wake of the database's general availability on Windows platforms. DbProtect, the release says, will detect 11g databases and make sure they are deployed and maintained securely.
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SoftTree Technologies on Wednesday released DB Audit Expert 4.0, which introduces discovery, security-management and behavior-analysis features for SQL servers. The release adds autodiscovery of various classes of information, security administration, behavioral-anomaly detection, auditing and compliance reporting, according to the press release. The product offers monitoring of regular and back-door access; auditing and continuous compliance; centralization of auditing control of multiple database layers; real-time performance monitoring and diagnostics; real-time e-mail alerting and regulatory compliance reporting.
Database security company Sentrigo late last month updated Hedgehog, a product that protects Oracle databases. Hedgehog is designed to follow predetermined rules to protect the databases before patches released by Critical Patch Updates are deployed (if they ever are).
This release of Hedgehog, the story says, includes new action scripts. Scripts determine an action, such as shutting down the machine or sending an alarm if certain conditions are reached. These features allow users to write their own scripts and to categorize their activities in a more granular fashion, which can be useful for compliance reasons. Such automation may take pressure of the database administrators who, perhaps against their wishes, are front and center on the database security issue.
After a joke about the acronym, this Securosis blogger lays out the case for database-activity monitoring (DAM). The piece dives into details pretty quickly, but the top line is important: DAM -- which, as the name implies, watches how people use the databases -- is rivaling the more often-discussed data-loss-prevention market. Though no source is given, the blogger says DAM generated $40 million last year and is slated to reach $60 million to $80 million in 2007. It is a young discipline useful in both compliance and security efforts, the writer says. The post includes a precise, multi-part definition of DAM and a description of its market drivers.
Clearly, there are great tools available from database vendors and security and compliance companies for those who want to protect their databases. Perhaps it shouldn't qualify as a surprise any longer, but it seems that there simply are too many people in positions of authority who just don't care.
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Jews Invent Alt-Right Conspiracy Theory to Explain Bad Star Wars Reviews
Eric Striker
Disney's latest Star Wars cash grab has a huge gap between the critical reception (92%) and audience reviews (52%) on Rotten Tomatoes. It's also bombing at the box office relative to previous releases.
According to Jews, this is part of an evil alt-right conspiracy.
You see, it can't be that professional reviewers working for mainstream Judenpress are cherry-picked for their ideology or corrupt assholes frightened by Disney's clout as an advertiser. Instead, the disconnect between reviewer and audience is the product of Neo-Nazi bots!
The paranoid fake news kike Drew Schwarz amplified (((Matthew Jacobs'))) Huffington Blog entry making these claims and the rest of the MSM picked it up from there.
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Critics seem to love The Last Jedi, and it's raking in cash hand over fist at the box office. But for a movie that's apparently obscenely popular, it's facing some pretty serious backlash from viewers—as of Thursday, its audience score on Rotten Tomatoes weighed in at 54 percent. So what gives?
According to the Huffington Post, a fringe alt-right group might be to blame. Some anonymous troll behind the Facebook group "Down With Disney's Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys" told HuffPo he dispatched an army of bots to flood The Last Jedi's Rotten Tomatoes page with negative reviews. The moderator—who self-identifies as alt-right—said he went after the movie for its "feminist agenda," arguing that Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) is a "victim of the anti-mansplaining movement," Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) is somehow being "turn[ed] gay," and that there are too many women featured in the film.
"I'm sick and tired of men being portrayed as idiots," the moderator told HuffPo. "There was a time we ruled society and I want to see that again. That is why I voted for Donald Trump."
In a Facebook post, the moderator took sole credit for The Last Jedi's low audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, claiming that his bots "rigged this score and still keep it dropping." But as the review aggregator tells it, that's a load of bunk. A representative from the site told HuffPo that if an army of bots were shitposting on The Last Jedi's page, Rotten Tomatoes would've noticed.
"As a course of regular business, we have a team of security, network, social, [and] database experts who monitor all of our platforms and they haven't seen any unusual activity," the rep said.
So in other words, Schwarz knows this isn't true, but you don't get the truth until the bottom 1/4 of the article. This is the formula used by the Judenpress to lie, as they know their easy-to-gaslight readers don't look past the title and a few paragraphs.
Any time you see a massive difference between (((critical reception))) and audience reception, it's because there is a political factor at play.
Both Fight Club and Conan the Barbarian were revolutionary works of art when they first came out. Jew-enabled cultural Marxists like Roger Ebert gave them low reviews solely because he didn't like exactly what resonated with the audience: the message. He famously ignored much of Fight Club's artistic merits because of its quasi-Fascist characters.
Today on Rotten Tomatoes, we see the "professional" movie reviewers in lab coats gave Fight Club an average rating of 70%, while the audience rates it 96%!
The audience is indeed offended by the Tumblrfication of Star Wars under the expanding ear shadow of Moshe Rat Inc., but that's just one of the many stink lines coming out of this film can.
Let's see how all-encompassing the Alt-Right conspiracy is when the film premieres in China on January 5th and they find out the negro character's love interest is an Asian girl.
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Once upon a time, my heart was completely broken. It lay in the center of my chest, shrouded in armor. It's power shattered and encased in a thick armor of fear and anxiety. I was addicted to work, diet coke and anxiety. I was in a failing marriage to my beloved best friend who was struggling with a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol. To the outside world I was a success: a myriad of degrees, thriving career teaching college and providing music therapy services, athletic endeavors, happy marriage, cool house. But my interior life was shambles, tears and loneliness. I was one grumpy Little Miss Gita.
One day, after a particularly delightful yoga class, I sat out on my deck in Chicagoland and began to meditate. I had just learned a heart-centered meditation and was looking forward to a peaceful respite. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, let all the sounds of nature filter through my consciousness, and turned my attention to my heart. Or, I tried to. I got as far as my collarbones and my awareness hit a black wall, the sensation freaked me out as I tried again and again to reach something, anything resembling warm heart-opening, heart-pumping, warm-emotion anything in my chest. I tried to feel my heartbeat. I tried feel warmth in my chest. I tried to feel sensations and emotions coming from this vibrant place. But I got nothing. In a blind panic I almost stopped breathing. No warmth, no heartbeat, no trace of emotion.
It was like I had thrown up shields around my heart and couldn't get my senses to feel something, anything. I felt deeply disconnected from myself, utterly shocked at how far I had removed myself from my source of power. I had always been the touchy-feely one, the hugger, the emoter, the social butterfly. Sitting in meditation with no distractions forced me to recognize that even though I still faked these qualities, I didn't actually feel their genuine inception anymore.
Reality check smack down complete, I felt deeply sad that I had walled off my source of power, that my emotive self was shriveling. Sitting in silence forced me to sit fully with how I actually felt, rather than the facade I presented to myself and the world. Reckoning with this current state was shocking and painful, but real. And real awareness was my first step to healing my broken heart. I began to do the only thing I know to do when my emotions and rational mind run out of rope, I chant.
Check out this video from my archives, and see how one of my favorite chants Om Shanthi, soothes even a savage (ok, not so savage) beast!
Chanting gave a yummy physical vibration that I could feel and sense, opening up areas of blocked muscular tension and energy, and gave me direction with a positive focus. Chanting was a tangible practice that gave me a direct experience of connection to myself, the present moment, and to the infinite field of energy that is ever present.
Fast forward oodles of years, a whole lotta chanting later, and I'm happy to say that my heart has been opened, re-opened, and blown wide open! It now hums along on all cylinders ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum I've got love for you!
Open your heart with me!
Check out my video, I'll teach you a simple and powerful chant that will instantly get your cells, mind and heart vibrating in happy little wiggles!
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New Delhi, March 28: Pakistan has reportedly asked its all-weather ally China to lift the technical hold on the United Nations (UN) listing of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. However, Pakistan set preconditions for India if it wants China not to vote in favour of a resolution to designate Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. Pakistan has told China that it wants India to carry out a military de-escalation on the border and resumption of bilateral talks between New Delhi and Islamabad.
According to a report by Hindustan Times, Pakistan has told China that it should let the UN ban Masood Azhar if India agrees for a military de-escalation on the border and resumes bilateral dialogue with Islamabad on all outstanding issues including Kashmir. Beijing is understood to have conveyed Pakistan's preconditions to the US. However, the Trump administration is of the view that the listing of Azhar and the resumption of talks between India and Pakistan are not linked with each other, the report added. Here's How China Blocked the Listing of Masood Azhar at the UNSC.
After the Pulwama terror attack, the US, France and Britain moved a resolution in the UN Sanctions Committee of the Security Council to designate Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. The move suffered a setback as China put a "technical hold" on the proposal. Bejing has so far blocked the listing of Azhar four times. Following China's recent "technical hold", the US, Britain and France, the three key members of P-5 of the UNSC, asked Beijing to come up with specific reasons for the hold in two weeks. This deadline expires this week. Rahul Gandhi Attacks Narendra Modi, Says 'Tell Pulwama Victim Families Who Released Masood Azhar'.
Meanwhile, the United States, supported by Britain and France have made a fresh attempt on Wednesday to designate Azhar as a global terrorist. The US circulated the draft resolution to the powerful 15-nation Council to blacklist the leader of the Pakistan-based terror group and subject him to a travel ban, an assets freeze and an arms embargo. The draft resolution says Azhar will be added to the UN Al-Qaida and Islamic State sanctions blacklist.
An annexe to the draft resolution says Azhar is associated with the Islamic State terror group, Al-Qaida for "participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating" or "supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material" or supporting acts of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). China Accuses US of Undermining UN Anti-Terror Body by Forcefully Moving Resolution on Masood Azhar in UNSC.
UN sources told news agency PTI that this is the "first time" the US, the UK and France have moved a draft resolution directly in the Security Council to designate Azhar. The previous have been listing proposals in the Sanctions Committee of the Council to designate Azhar. Unlike a listing proposal, which is generally under a 10- day no objection period, the draft resolution is not under any no-objection provision.


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Hattip Theo Spark
The Sunday papers were full of Stephen Byers wanting to bury Inheritance Tax - presumably in the same way that his spin doctor once tried to bury bad news. I have 'history' on this in that I spoke out in favour of ditching Inheritance Tax at the Tory Party Conference in 2004. To me the argument is simple. It's a tax on death. It's taxing you on money you have already been taxed on. It's blatantly unfair and if as a Conservative you believe in cascading wealth down the generations you cannot possibly be in favour of retaining Inheritance Tax. It was one tax reform the Thatcher government should have tackled but didn't. Actually, there were others too, but let's not get sidetracked. I wanted a commitment in the 2005 Conservative Manifesto if not to abolish it outright, to phase it out.
Now if I thought Stephen Byers really wanted to abolish Inheritance Tax, really felt it in his gut, then I would applaud him. But his move is a cynical one. It's to fire yet another shot across the bows of Gordon Brown. Byers is an ueber-Blairite - a so-called 'outrider', whatever that means. His mission is to make it as difficult as possible for Brown to succeed in his quest to succeed Blair. But who's he acting for? Milburn or Reid? I frankly have no idea, but I suspect it will become clear over the coming weeks. But just as interesting, who else will come out of the woodwork to launch similar grenades into the Brownite bunker?
Is this the caption competition?
I'll go first then with 'Who's the daddy?'
Iain,
I think Blair will fire the next salvo. He will blame Brown for the failures of the NHS and evrything else by not ensuring that the monies reached the shop floor!
He will join forces with the conservatives in painting Brown as an incompetent, and get away with it as only Blair appears to do!
It will then leave it open for Blair to appoint his favourite (at that time) as the Deputy Prime Minister, having persuaded Prescott to become Lord Prescott of
Thorpe Park.
Ian wrote,
"Byers is an ueber-Blairite - a so-called 'outrider'"
There's a cryptic clue in that line!
For "a so" read "asshole"
The Daily Pundit said...
An outrider is similar to a joyrider but differs from a Knightrider.
Alan Milburn could be described as a joyrider, whereas Ron Davies could be described as a Knightrider.
Don't ask me about the sidewinder, you wouldn't want to know.
I'm playing devils advocate here, but as a Conservative, don't you also believe in equality of opportunity? One can't choose one's parents. What happens if it becomes impossible for children from less well off backgrounds to compete on an equal footing in life, especially in areas such as childhood health and education just because their parents were hardworking/lazy/lucky/unlucky/good/bad at managing money?
Good question, going by the following there is an effort to undermine Brown afoot:http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200608/297fd6b2-7262-4ed8-a024-ce91cc92e4c3.htm
And this suggests a retaliation:
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200608/e11294af-2f1e-427d-bc34-b95b16f83dfd.htm
Woo cares why he said it, it is at least in the public consciousness as an idea now.
This proposal had to come from someone like Byers, in the belly of the tax-raising beast because the current Tory leadership are scared stiff of committing to anything- even now it's been proposed to near universal approval, Osborne won't agree!
If Labour civil war will continue to result in good ideas being put into the press then we have another good reason to egg them on.
Archbishop Cranmer said...
if not to abolish it outright, to faze it out.
Faze? 'Faze', Mr Dale? What is the derivation of this word? Ha! You mean 'phase'?!
To 'faze' is to disconcert, unnerve. One cannot do that to a tax, unless, of course, the tax is a sentient entity. His Grace knows of none.
But where, pray, does the Exchequer recoup the billions lost through the abolition of this 'death' tax? Please do not say 'efficiency savings'. They never seem to transpire.
I completely agree that inheritance tax should be abolished simply because it is a tax on death and if you have been paying taxes throughout your life then your children should not be made to pay any taxes on your death.
Shallow Stephen makes Brown look the redistributionist, which will do him no harm with his natural supporters.
Cranmer said 'But where, pray, does the Exchequer recoup the billions lost through the abolition of this 'death' tax?'
Print more money. It's time for a good bout of inflation; makes everytone so much better off, unless they're on the breadline but then they won't be voting conservative will they?
The Voice of Reason said...
Did it cross your minds that core labour voters up north rarely pay this tax so if Gordon says "no the rich can afford it." It'll make him popular.
At the same time George will come under pressure to promise to abolish it "Why even some Labour MPs are demanding it!"
If George does promise so Gordon will say "Cameron will have to close 57 Maternity Units to pay for it"
Headlines in The Sun CAMERON TO CLOSE 100 MATERNITY UNITS TO PAY FOR THE RICH
Has anyone else noticed how many Labour targets are to be met by 2012?
Not much chance of Labour being around to catch the flack from those failures.
Scipio said...
If we are on the subject of things I would like to see in the next Tory manifesto, can I throw the following into the discussion:
1. The abolition of inheritance tax (for the same reasons that Iain gave)
2. The rights for a parental ballot on creating MORE grammar schools where demand exceeds supply
3. A bill which says that the UK will unilaterally and immediately raise the percentage of GDP it donates to overseas development to 1%, with no strings attached to trade deals
4. A raft of measures which will deal with family breakdown, poverty, poor education performance and social issues caused by absent fathers who don't take their responsibilities to their children seriously enough!
5. Compulsory Grant Maintained Status (or independent Trust status) for all schools
6. Taking those on state benefits out of paying income tax completely
7. Increase the role of the voluntary sector through supporting voluntary bodies with Government money (organisations such as hospices for example, where people go to die with dignity but receive not a jot from Gordon Brown!)
8. An act to change the way money raised from the lottery is used – not to subsidise government spending, and not on lunatic PC projects!
9. A review of all the new legislation and laws which have deluged down upon us over the past 30 years – and a list of the ones which can be done away with. Less law is better law!
10. A Royal Commission on how the Government taxes and spends, with a view to considering introducing tax reforms, flat taxes and local income tax and scrapping the council tax
11. A Royal Commission into the future of the NHS, in particular how healthcare is funded, and the future role of the private sector
12. A Royal Commission on future pension provision, considering the abolition of National Insurance and its replacement with something which will actually do the trick, compulsory pension contributions, and the need for people to save more and spend less
13. A Royal Commission on the Constitution, looking at some for of codified constitution which gives us back our (now much eroded) liberties, and offers us bills of rights etc against Government power. Something to roll back the damage done to the constitution since 1997 and ensure that civil liberties can not be messed around with again
14. Abolishing the hunting ban (not because I hunt – I don't, it's just a spiteful piece of legislation)
15. Restricting the ability of Scottish MPs to vote on English & Welsh matters
16. Scrapping regional assemblies
17. Somehow increase in the level of state pension paid to those in obvious poverty, but without forcing them to fill in endless forms and go 'cap in hand' to the state for what is rightfully theirs!
18. Reduction on wine duty!
19. Measures which really make society wise up to the dangers of alcohol abuse, binge drinking and booze fuelled yobbish behaviour (take every binge drinker to a post mortem of someone who has died after drinking too much – that might wake them up)
20. And finally – a bill to reform our relationship with the EU, whereby we withdraw in a friendly manner, and renegotiate a Norwegian style 'trade only' agreement which protects our and the EU's trading interests, but gives us back control of our laws, borders and fishing grounds!!!!
Cranmer, perhaps Iain said 'faze' as in 'fazer' from Star Trek.Fazers as I'm sure you'll remember destroyed everything so completely they diappeared from view.Good thing for IHT if you ask me..
My accountant advises me that to avoid the tax on death as some are graphically putting it, I should not die.
I am, therefore, taking his advice
Alfie said...
God - Steven Byers.... as sweaty as Uriah Heep in a sauna. I really do not like this man, no scruples, no ethics, no talent, no idea. He reminds me of the sly kid in school.... you know, the little creep who everyone hated as he brown nosed his way into teacher's affections.
I am just amazed he didn't get deselected before the last election as a result of his appalling behaviour. But I tell you what, it's a sad day for British politics - because presumably this means he's on a promise from his mystery sponsor. And if this guy ('family man Milburn' or 'Rabid Reid') actually wins the next leadership contest then presumably Byers' 'loyalty' will be rewarded in some way..... Cabinet post - or plum job in Europe?
Either way, the prospect is just awful.
The point here is this:
Work hard, save, contribute to - but be independent of - the state all your life, then when old and infirm, cash-in your kids inheritence and live on that instead. And then, what little is left over after your death can be given to those who need it most - the Government!
The Leadership Blogger said...
This was on the JV show on Radio 2 recently, that well known haunt of hangers and floggers, with a seasoning of greens and bunny huggers.
An old fashioned "Lay-ber vo'tah" called in. His proposition was basically "Fucking toffs. Why the fuck should THEY have any money to pass on to THEIR kids when I barely have enough cash out of me benefit for the beer and fags ? And they live in these bloody posh houses when I have to put up with spending my life in this almost free council house"
Now, who said Brown was closer to "old labour"?
Byers is a well known git, and this is in line with his statements. As a soft lefty I cannot understand the sort of society Iain and Byers are advocating. Essentially what we are talking about here is the creation of a new aristocracy, complete with massive landholdings, a class of idle trustfunders owning virtually all the capital, land and property and the rest of us in future generations essentially toiling as their (badly paid) serfs. Presumably history will then run full circle and we will have another wave of revolutions. Why on earth do neocons advocate this guff? The line about being taxed on money you've already been taxed on is true of hard working middle class families, but it's not true of the wealthy, who generally are skilled at avoiding tax during life. Zero tax rates on capital essentially make the already-rich through tax evasion even richer. They remove incentive on the children of wealthy families to work, and cause the class of inheritors to support corrupt political systems (such as - increasingly - ours) that defend large-scale property owners rights. The result can easily be inspected anywhere in the third world zones of Latin America, where the staggeringly wealthy live alongside desperate poverty and oppression of the favelas. Thank you Iain for advocating this system with the usual lies, trying to rope in the middle class to defend a policy that only really favours the idle rich.
Adrian Yelland - the money is not "given to the government" - it goes into general taxation which is then spent on public services like the military, schools, the NHS, roads, etc. Are you saying these things should not be provided, or just that someone else should pay for them? Presumably some of the more extreme neocons on these pages would for example advocate a military that is sold at the point of source? A return to our sea captains earning their salaries by stealing foreign ships? Hurrah for the good old days!
so if you abolish inheritance tax it leaves a three billion shortfall which has to come from somewhere.
Why? Why doesn't the Government simply decide to spend/waste less of our money, so the books balance?
Surely that's what a Conservative government would do if elected - isn't it? Hello, George? Hello, Dave?
I see Inheritence Tax supporters are calling it a nativist tax on Labour Home.
I'm surprised you haven't mentioned your plug by Mr Blunkett is his Sun column today Iain (I found it on the train and didn't buy it may I add)
anonymous 8:05 Certainly, the taxpayer should be funding our national defence. I can even see a case for schools. But roads? Why?
The NHS? Why should it not be funded by the people who use it?
> To me the argument is simple.
> It's a tax on death.
Hence the term "Death Duties"? How effective these new euphemisms are in masking the reality! Ministry of Defence my arse!
The Hitch said...
anon 7;41
shut up and make sure my boots are polished in the morning. And if I find you on the front stairs again you are in for a thrashing.
Fruning Graplecard said...
Iain: "It's taxing you on money you have already been taxed on"
So is VAT and Council Tax. Does that stop 'em? Are they bovvered? They would tax farts if they could quantify them.
Let's face it, it's not the uber (is it "uber" or "ueber"?) rich that we worry about, it is the nicely comfortable who are yet again the target.
Until recently there was a nice little perk that NHS employees could take advantage of; that was the purchase of personal computers out of gross income, at source. Ol' Greasy Head stopped that one, didn't he? So not only do most NHS employees work in shitey new buildings with no windows and no air conditioning due to PFI, and due to effing PFI they now have to PAY for the priveledge of parking (because they cannot afford housing nearby) at their place of work, the one nice little sweetener has been squashed.
And now I shall calm down in the fume cupboard.
Tony Blair said...
Look guys, I think you're all missing the point here, if you don't mind me saying. You know, we've got to raise the money somehow for all our manifesto commitments and I need as much as I can to buy Blair Force one.
If I abolish this tax, I'm going to have to raise it on something else.
Tony, Barbados
Coming back down to earth for a moment, why the hell should anyone want to leave their wealth to kids who will only fight over who gets what anyway. Let the little buggers struggle a bit, like we had to to accumulate what we have. Why should our kids have a free ride. So what, if they have to pay some tax on something they didn't earn, the ungrateful little sods are lucky to get anything anyway. Bah, Humbug!
Emma F shares the wealth said...
Notice how this debate has moved from what it was originally. People were making the sensible point that too many hard working and fairly ordinary families are paying inheritance tax, which was always intended as a moderation on the entrenchment of inter-generational wealth, which tends to build in unearned privilege and undeserved advancement, denying others a meritocracy. Fair point, because people with say a £300,000 house probably shouldn't be paying such a tax nowadays. Clearly the threshold is too low. But totally abolish it? Where the heck did that come from? Who is Byers speaking for here? The struggling middle class? No way! He's thinking of his pals in the PFI industries, the privatised utilities, etc, who have made millions, not through much effort on their part but simply through being in the right place at the right time. Now they want their kids to dominate us through their unearned wealth, which is what zero percent inheritance tax amounts to, since the ability of capital to attract capital and grow at the expense of others means that within only a few generations we will all essentially be slaves of a few thousand megarich people. Delighted to know that this is now Tory party policy though - I don't hear Cameron speaking against it and I'm sure Iain has been primed to release this.
By the way, for those discussing tax substitution and efficiency cuts. Removing the tax havens of Jersey and Isle of Man would release more money than the government currently spends on defence and roads put together. Perhaps that would be an election winner? Why should the rich here be free to avoid tax with these tricks whilst hard working middle class people on salaries have to pay taxes? Come to that, what's so cool about passing unearned wealth on to kids? Shouldn't they be encouraged to earn a living and isn't that a solid conservative value? Or do solid conservative values only apply to poor people (make them work) and very rich people (stop them paying taxes)?
nsfl said...
There are plenty of good reasons on this page to abolish IHT and the fact that it's "tax on money that's already been taxed" sure ain't one of them. Do people realise how much duty there is on booze? Or what percentage of your net wages which you hand over for petrol goes straight to Gord? Or that there's VAT on tampons (yeah, they're certainly a luxury, like restaurant bills and Jacuzzis)?
We are taxed on "money that's already been taxed" all the time. Do you pay council tax from your gross earnings? Or from take-home pay?
Dear Adrian Yalland (Did you once write a diary?)
Points 3.6.9.10.12.13.16.17.18.20
are all related to the wonderful EU.
There is no escape from the pettiness and danger of this nazi state other than withdrawal comletely, reuniting with our commonwealth friends and the USA and doing what this proud nation has done for centuries namely T R A D E.
This shoddy crew in government (did you hear Mother Superior on today this morning?)have not got the slightest clue how to run anything, and when, eventually, others get to see the books (if they have not been shredded)the full scale of their incompetence and fraud will ensure the end of that party.
Fruning Graplecard: They would tax farts if they could quantify them.
I think if they use super-sensitive scales and weigh you before and after a massive Johnny Fartpants-style guff, they could probably quantify , and hence tax, your farts.
It could decimate the market for cauliflower, kidney beans, and lentils, Alpen cereal etc ...farmers dealing in any part of the process of bringing such goods to market would no doubt no longer vote Labour.
I recommend they think again about introducing such a tax.
Jonathan M Scott said...
If we have £3.3bn that we could realistically cut on tax in the future, surely it would be better to commit such a figure to helping low- or middle-income earners?
After all, those who face inheritance tax have £285,000 tax free inheritance before they get taxed at all!
Dear Anonymous (8.05pm). Firstly, why can't you leave a name?
Secondly, what is the difference between what I said "...given to the Government" and what you said "...it goes into general taxation"? The Government are the central collection point for taxation through the Inland Revenue, Customs and Excise and the Court system, and the central place for the spending of money they have collected!
Thirdly, where did you get the idea that I am against funding public services? All I said is that IT taxes death, and in particular, taxes the death of people that have been taxed heavily all their life. It is unfair that people who work hard and accumulate a degree of wealth (and I am not talking about the Bill Gates of this world, as IT is increasingly hitting more and more people as house prices rise) are then forced to give a large proportion of their estate 'to fund general taxation', the benefits they will not see as they are already dead, rather than exercising choice about where their money goes.
There is a moral and an economic argument IT!
My points, in a nutshell is:
1. It is their money, and they have already paid tax on it during its accumulation. Why do the Government feel they have the right to take another 40% after the person is dead, thus denying the dead person the right to choose how that money is spent. The Government act with increasing arrogance over the issues of dipping endlessly into our pockets whilst showing NO visible improvement in the services our money funds.
2. Dead people no longer benefit from public services, and should therefore not be expected to contribute towards their funding!
3. The middle classes are net contributors to the public services (i.e. they pay in more than they take out), yet the middle classes are the ones who are NOT entitled to free care in old age (they are expected to sell their houses to survive on that), and then are forced to leave nearly half their estate to continue funding public services post mortem!
4. If you are irresponsible, don't save, don't work and don't care, you get 'looked after' by the Government (at the tax payer's expense), then get free care in old age, then die without leaving a penny behind!
I am not anti poor, anti tax or anti supporting others. I am however against ever increasing taxes which lead to ever more waste in the public services and declining levels of service. I am also against unfairness in the tax system which continually hits the middle classes – even when they are dead!
I am also angry that when the middle classes finally say 'enough is enough', they are accused by whining lefties of being greedy, selfish, nasty, uncaring to the poor old poor, and told that because we have been careful and got some cash to pass on, our first duty is NOT to our family (or favourite charity), but instead to fund the profligate and wasteful lifestyle of others who don't contribute a red cent to society and expect to be supported in old age by the death of those who have already spent their entire lives supporting them!
Fairness is a two way street. If you want me to fund your old age because you can't afford to, then show me that you are making reasonable efforts to meet me half way by taking some responsibility for your life and future! Don't just sit back, say 'I'm poor, someone else should pay' then expect me to cough up 40% of my life's savings to fund you.
You NEVER enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich! You just snap the neck of the goose which has worked hard to lay the golden egg. And then, we are all poorer.
CityUnslicker said...
I know I really shoudl write something worthy about why inheritance tax is good/bad...but really Malcolm - 'Fazer' I spelt Phasor in Star Trek. Scotty would have been so displeased; but then he spent his kids inheritance by having is ashes blasted into space-how about that for the next manifesto?
This is not about the MEGA rich people - and the conspiracy theorists should stop peddling that lie. The MEGA rich already avoid paying IT because they pass on their welath through tax efficiency measures which their Trust advisors and accountants sort out - mostly by off shoring it in tax havens!
This is about the middle classes with a few grand saved up through their own hard work being squeezed until their dead bones snap by a Government which thinks it has absolute right to dip its greasy slimey hand into our back pockets as much as it feels it wants too. And, I might add, without showing any real improvement in public services as a result! All we get is fatter, richer politicians - which is why Byers-Lyers is now against IT!
What does "equality of opportunity' mean? Does it mean that if you are more handsome than me (or vice versa) there ought to be a compulsory operation to make sure we look identical – on the grounds that good looks gets jobs? Maybe if you are more intelligent than me (or vice versa) there ought to be an operation to make sure we have equal intelligence? Maybe you attend a school that boasts your abilities with an exceptional education? In pursuit of equality of opportunity we should close it down. What if you have loving parents and I have cold parents? Is the implication that we should be put into a State foster home that equalises they way that we are brought up. Maybe you have ancestors that inspire you to great achievements and my ancestors are a disgrace? Should we abolish history and start from year zero? In short to enforce 'equality of opportunity' you have to destroy the past, enforce uniformity in the present, and oppose any excellence that risks generating achievements in the future that surpass your own. Of course cutting off somebody else's nose to satisfy your spite is not an entirely unknown motivation amongst human beings, but let us not pretend it is a virtue. It is the sad and sick politics of hate.
Yak40 said...
Close some government departments, fire their staff, after all there's nearly a million more civil sevants since 1997 (hey, same as number of immigrants come to think of it). Put civil servants' pensions in line with the rest of the world. Get rid of some if not all of Gordon's screwed up rebate schemes and so on.
That's a good start
Adrian Yalland, having read your manifesto I want to know one more thing: when and where are you standing for parliament? That was the most sensible manifesto I have ever read and it would definitely get my vote.
Average guy! Thanks - was it the reduction on wine duty that did it!!!
I'm flattered though - want to run my campaign? If you can find an association to take me on, I'd love to stand!
PoliticalHackUK said...
IHT only affects 6% of all estates in the UK. It only kicks in at £285,000 and then only on monies above that. Transfers between civil partners or married couples aren't taxed.
It isn't somebody paying tax on money they have already earned. The person/people who earned the dosh are dead, the tax is on the deceased's estate.
I find it hard to get exercised about a tax that only affects a minority of wealthy people and goes into the general taxation fund to support hospitals, schools and other things that many people regard as essentials, not luxuries.
Not even Gideon Osborne could find it in his heart to abolish IHT.
Politicakhack - it's the principle! Why should people who have paid tax all their life continue to pay tax once dead - to fund services they will no longer benefit from!
You have to laugh. Labour Party hacks look down at their crib sheet, and endlessly repeat – Inheritance Tax is for schools and hospitals, and besides you do not have to worry about stealing from the dead because only affects rich people!
To listen to them you would think that the wealth harvested from tax serfs only goes on schools and hospitals! They seem to forget that the serfs keep hearing about – yes there still is a free press – reports telling us that the money [which goes on the above mentioned schools and hospitals] has been wasted – or to put it more politely 'soaked up by the system'.
Maybe more central direction can solve this problem?
Here is a radical idea. Let me spend my money on my own choice of schools and doctors, and I shall let you continue in your delusion that you know best how to run everybody's lives.
Even that point about not worrying about the immorality of stealing from the dead because it is after only a few million rich people, neglects something important. That curious notion that it is better to live – and allow as many others as you can afford to help – independently of the State.
Since thought has not yet been completely nationalised I simply offer this as a thought – beware of Leftists bearing stolen gifts.


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We Need To Outnumber Them
Posted on April 22, 2017 by L Franz
DT is a terrible person, yet almost 63 million Americans voted for him. Although it's tempting to blame his Electoral College success on mass psychosis, perhaps his win wasn't so outlandish after all. Charles Pierce argues that DT was a "helluva candidate":
In fact, for the cultural and political context within which [the 2016] election took place, he might have been a perfect candidate….There really was a big slice of the electorate, concentrated in states that were vital in the Electoral College, that was uniquely susceptible to [DT's] appeal. He and his people spotted it and campaigned accordingly….
[DT] is merely a cruder manifestation of the political prion disease that has afflicted conservatism and the Republican Party since it first ate the monkey brains 35 years ago. It was all leading to someone like [DT], and something like last year's election.
Prion diseases destroy brain cells and are always fatal. Fortunately, they're rare. What Mr. Pierce calls "political prion disease" doesn't kill the people who have it and is much too common.
The same day this week that Mr. Pierce published his comment, a blogger who calls himself "Driftglass" expressed an equally harsh opinion:
You see, the overwhelming majority of the rank-and-file of the [Republican Party] are unsalvageably fucked-in-the-head. They are happily brainwashed nitwits and racists who would gladly belly-flop their entire family into a live volcano if Fox News told them to and would spend their last moments on this Earth before being incinerated into iconoclastic ash cursing Obama or Clinton or Nancy Pelosi or Susan Rice for the ouch ouch burning.
After watching Republicans for 30 years marching down and down and down this long and horrifying road to smug, snarling, mindless political bestiality, it is about goddamn time that we started treating this grim fact as a fact.
(Note: I think it's clear where Driftglass stands.)
Driftglass argues that we shouldn't try to change these crazy people's minds or even try to meet them halfway. They're beyond hope. He points out that President Obama tried and tried again to work with them. Obama was much too optimistic:
At this late date it absurd to believe that we will find any potential converts on the Right, primed and ready for a Road to Damascus moment if only [DT] fucks them over enough… Of course President Obama was never going to say this out loud, or apparently every let himself think such terrible thoughts at all. To him, every Republican pile of horseshit was taken as proof that a pony could not be far away, if only we clapped a little louder, bent over a bit further and were never so crass as to mention that the GOP was run by amoral thugs and hobgoblins.
Not everyone on the left agrees with this position, of course. We're still being told to see things from the perspective of DT's ardent supporters, so that we can address their concerns with intelligent, progressive policies that don't offend their sensibilities. Bernie Sanders, for example, keeps saying there is common ground between us. Everybody hates the big banks! Everybody wants peace and prosperity for all! When salt of the earth, "real" Americans realize the Republican Party has been selling them a bill of goods, they'll see the light.
I don't think it's going to happen. I'm even less optimistic after reading a very interesting article by Zack Beauchamp last month. Its title is: "No easy answers: why left-wing economics is not the answer to right-wing populism". Beauchamp describes Senator Sanders delivering his usual message after the election:
Sanders had a simple answer. Democrats, he said, needed to field candidates who would unapologetically promise [to] "to stand up with the working class of this country and … take on big-money interests."
Democrats, in other words, would only be able to defeat [DT] and others like him if they adopted an anti-corporate, unabashedly left-wing policy agenda.
That's a belief widely shared among progressives around the world. A legion of commentators and politicians … have argued that center-left parties must shift further to the left in order to fight off right-wing populists such as [DT] and France's Marine Le Pen. Supporters of these leaders, they argue, are motivated by a sense of economic insecurity in an increasingly unequal world; promise them a stronger welfare state, one better equipped to address their fundamental needs, and they will flock to the left.
Unfortunately, there is evidence that shows otherwise:
The problem is that a lot of data suggests that countries with more robust welfare states tend to have stronger far-right movements. Providing white voters with higher levels of economic security does not tamp down their anxieties about race and immigration — or, more precisely, it doesn't do it powerfully enough. For some, it frees them to worry less about what's in their wallet and more about who may be moving into their neighborhoods or competing with them for jobs…
A more populist Democratic platform might rally more voters to [DT], as many whites will see it as a giveaway to undeserving minorities.
It's hard to believe it's true, but Beauchamp makes a strong case:
European social democrats have been proposing ideas that more objectively speak to the material interests of voters … for decades. In virtually every country in Western Europe, however, it hasn't been enough to help the [left-wing] parties maintain their historic levels of public support….
[One political scientist] argues that the combination of rapid economic growth and a robust welfare state have provided voters with enough economic security that they could start prioritizing issues beyond the distribution of wealth — issues like abortion, same-sex marriage and, most crucially, immigration.
So it's not that European social democrats failed to sell their economic message, or that economic redistribution became unpopular. It's that economic issues receded in importance at the same time as Europe was experiencing a massive, unprecedented wave of nonwhite, non-Christian immigration.
That, in turn, brought some of the most politically potent non-material issues — race, identity and nationalism — to the forefront of Western voters' minds. How comfortable were they, really, with multicultural, multifaith societies? The traditional social democratic message didn't really speak to these cultural anxieties. But the right's did….
[A German professor] studied data on working-class voters [and] found that the stronger the welfare state, the bigger the gains for far-right parties among the working class. The top third of countries — that is, the ones with the largest welfare states — saw roughly four times the rate of far-right support among the working class as the countries in the bottom third did…. Right-wing populists typically have gotten their best results in wealthier areas of countries — that is, with voters who experience the least amounts of economic insecurity.
This doesn't bode well for the approach Senator Sanders keeps promoting. But it does correspond to what's known about the typical DT voter. On average, his voters were more prosperous than Clinton voters (i.e. doing relatively well) but nevertheless intensely opposed to America becoming more diverse (even though diversity is part of our strength). For them, "make America great again" meant "make America like it's 1955 again".
If, however, we can't make them see the light, how do we stop them from electing so many crazy people? If a strong progressive message and policies that benefit society as a whole will only make them angrier, more fearful and more likely to focus on "social" or "cultural" issues, it seems to me that the only thing we can do is outnumber them. We have to oppose mass deportation and restrictions on immigration. We need to welcome refugees. And most importantly, we need to fight for voting rights and always, always, always vote in every single election. Especially for candidates who aren't crazy.
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