The Political Pragmatist |

Pragmatism?

Whether a philosophy, a party, or a movement, Pragmatism is the politics of the marjority of Americans. Neither Democrat nor Republican, liberal nor conservative, the middle of our great Republic is Pragmatic. We care about solutions to problems, not winning arguments. Good ideas are needed and they can come from either side. Most middle class Americans are one accident, one illness, one job loss from becoming destitute. From the late 1960s until the present economic collapse, the middle class has been squeezed. According the chief economic advisor to Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, middle class Americans have written a check of $10,000 a year to the top 2% of all Americans. The income disparity between rich and middle class in this U.S. is great. It is also wrong policy. Blue collar middle class is barely a memory. Manufacturing jobs, union jobs, have been sent to factories overseas. Many white collar jobs have followed. The economic and governmental policies of the past have been a plague on middle class families. Every year, the gap between rich and middle class has increased while the gap between the definition of working poor and median incomes has narrowed. Middle class Americans may either be striving for upward mobility or seeking security for their families. We are doctors and auto mechanics, lawyers and plumbers. We are America's Great Middle Class and we demand that our politicians listen to our needs. We have the power to take back America. We are pragmatic in our approach, and practical in our philosophy. If it helps the middle class, it is good for America.