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Jeffrey A. Rendall | 7/26/2017

The air was so thick you could cut it with a knife on Monday afternoon as leading Democrat politicians ventured outside the Washington Beltway to a public park in nearby Berryville, Virginia (in Rep. Barbara Comstocks 10th District) to reveal their new agenda aimed at winning back at least some of the traditional Democrats who dumped the party to vote for Donald Trump and Republican congressional and Senate candidates last November.

The sight of men and women in suits and button down shirts must have appeared awful strange to those park visitors who werent aware ahead of time that a gaggle of ruling class Democrats would be showing up to try, once again, to rebrand themselves into the champions of the common man.

Seeing Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer (and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, et al.) pontificating outdoors in the intense glare of the Virginia summer would be humorous under most circumstances but on Monday it was absolutely side-splitting laughable not only because they were sweating like the common man in direct sunlight but also because what they were trying to pitch wasnt all that fresh and wouldnt be spared from overexposure no matter how many layers of sunscreen were applied.

In all, it was just the latest Democrat bash on American individualism and capitalism.

Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner reported, The Better Deal agenda regurgitates many of the old Democratic ideas of raising the minimum wage, increasing spending on infrastructure and penalizing companies that move overseas.

But it also emphasizes breaking up big companies such as airlines and cable companies and goes after the pharmaceutical industry with a requirement that companies justify their prices to consumers who are struggling to pay for medication.

Old-fashioned capitalism has broken down to the detriment of consumers, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday...

Old-fashioned capitalism has broken down, Chuck? Nonsense. If anything, old-fashioned capitalism has been weighted down by tens of thousands of pages of the federal register and a collection of politicians from both parties who believe a laissez-faire economic system needs to be fixed or transformed rather than lightly monitored to ensure fairness and a level playing field for all participants in the marketplace.

The truth is, capitalism would work swimmingly if given the chance. Neither party especially Democrats would stoop to offering people the trust and opportunity to make their own economic choices. If you dont believe it, just look at Obamacare. The best health system in the world is collapsing because most or all of the capitalism has been removed from it.

We wont address the Republicans recent failures to deal with Obamacare in this space right now were focusing on the wretched Democrats and their hopeless party remake.

The Democrats attempt to rebrand themselves as heroes to the struggling isnt going to convince anyone with common sense or knowledge of history to give them another try. A snake periodically sheds its skin, but its still a snake. A chameleon lizard changes colors but its still a chameleon lizard. A Democrat can claim he or she is for middle class families and helping people improve their economic situations but at the core he or she is still... a socialist.

Lets not forget Hillary Clinton tried to heap the same better deal sell-job on Americans last year just as Pelosi, Schumer and Warren (et. al) did in Virginia a couple days ago and it turned people off. The problem is the Democrats just emerged from two terms of Obama, including a couple years of complete Democrat congressional control, and their better deal agenda didnt improve things for anyone.

The message might enjoy at least a token bit of credibility if it werent articulated by the same liberal leadership thats become the figurehead of the post-Obama Democrat Party. Is anyone seriously going to believe Schumer and Pelosi have changed their thinking on empowering Americans to succeed? Hardly. By all appearances Democrats are solely interested in restraining people who have ideas in order to secure goodies for their dedicated followers.

Theyre redistributionists of the highest order.

Further, contrast the Democrats gloomy anti-freedom and liberty message with that of candidate Trump last year. The Democrats relentlessly blast successful Americans (the rich) in order to lure the weak-minded and uninformed into supporting them. Trump attacked the unfairness of the system the elites stole from the people and the elites themselves to appeal to Americans displaced by decades of broken federal promises (like not enforcing the immigration laws and trade deals that sent their jobs overseas and using the political system to enrich themselves).

Democrats want more rules, more regulations and more federal bureaucrats looking over the shoulders of people doing business in order to dictate equity in the workplace. It wont succeed. Most Americans simply want to be left alone, not to be placed in the shackles of more central planning and command control located in the far off Capitol.

Understandably, Republicans were less than impressed by the Democrats display of America/capitalist-bashing.

Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner reported, Democrats announced their new Better Deal campaign, which will focus on helping average Americans instead of the rich and special interest groups.

But AshLee Strong, [Speaker Paul] Ryan's press secretary, noted that Republicans came out with the Better Way campaign last year.

Have you seen this creative, innovative, totally unique Better Deal messaging campaign ... the Democrats unveiled this morning for the 2018 cycle, she asked in an email that was interspersed with links to the GOP's Better Way website.

Instead of suggesting were seeing a fresh coat of paint on the same old Democrat socialist ideas, however, the Republican leadership seems to be taking offense at the minority partys ostensible stealing of their own marketing strategy.

Therein lies the problem the ideas themselves arent being attacked as much as the Republicans object to the Democrats perceptible plagiarism. The GOP has its own host of impotence issues, mostly having to do with the establishment party leadership not really standing for anything and a lasting image problem with the voters who rightly see that Republicans are great in the opposition but cant enact a conservative agenda once theyre handed the quill and ink to write up laws.

In the end it doesnt really matter whether either party calls their program a Better Deal or a Better Way if they wont assume the necessary political risks to actually pass laws or cut the budget or stand up for a set of principles beyond whatever it takes to win a majority or get them through the next election.

Both parties are capitalism bashers in their own specific ways. Where the free market is concerned, politicians want to tinker with the entire engine to fix a few bad spark plugs.

Its also to these politicians personal advantage to attack the very foundations of the American economic system. After all, theres always a reason why someone succeeds and others dont, and theyre more than happy to supply the cause. Its much easier to point the finger at someone else rather than taking responsibility for ones failures. Your gain is my loss; its the basis for their governing philosophy. Their reason for existence is to make the underachievers of the world feel empowered.

And just when the Democrats appeared to be taking responsibility for their poor electoral plight in recent times, they resort back to their old tricks again.

Tyler ONeil of PJ Media reported, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told The Washington Post that Democrats should blame themselves for losing last November, rather than pinning their defeat on former FBI Director James Comey or the Trump campaign's supposed collusion with Russia. In a tweet Monday morning, President Trump heartily agreed.

When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don't blame other things Comey, Russia you blame yourself, Schumer told the Post. So what did we do wrong? People didn't know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.

After seeing Mondays press event with a group of them wilting from exposure to the blistering Virginia sun its not at all clear the Democrats stand for anything apart from what they did yesterday or last week or last month or last year.

Their underlying message is all the same and can be summed up as thus: We know more than you and the American people cant be trusted to make decisions on personal financial matters or handling their own money.

Chuck Schumers right: American capitalism does need a reexamination. But the Democrats shouldnt be surprised when the people demand more of it, not the warmed-over rebranded Better Deal theyre offering to move attention away from their latest ploy to foster socialism.

Link:
Outsiders vs. Insiders: Democrats' 'Better Deal' is socialism repackaged in naked populist form - ConservativeHQ