A New Era for the Center-Left
These are our people and we should realize that their problems are ours.
We have talked about economic votes in parts two and three and we discussed how universal healthcare coverage and the electrification of the economy are larger goals that the working class economy needs to have and about how the Democratic Party must make sure that all people have the right to good nutrition, accessible transportation, and a decent home to live in. These are the basics of our society going forward and frankly, we were told by the numbers from the Federal Reserve that there was a section of the economy that was not doing as well as the majority of the economy and these people were, and are, core to the basics of being a People’s party. This is because the working class puts in far more effort than they are given credit for.
However, now we must talk about not being cut and thrust which will eventually give us a shot at power. However, there are deeper depths to ply because there are issues that are more fundamental grounding that come from the basics of society and of the government that it forms. So you will first discuss issues, then the deeper meaning that they rise from, and then go back to issues that cement the framework of society and government.
One issue that needs to be talked about is that the majority of the Democratic party is female. There are certain key issues that the Democratic Party must stand firm on because they affect the lives of so many of our core constituents. We must look at the issue of life because it is essential. Women have a more complex relationship with life than men do: because women bear life and have inmate differences in a number of ways. This goes onwards to the rest of their lives in many cases.
First, because it is women who bring life into the world. And this causes a collision between what is biologically essential and what is culturally essential. This means that there needs to be a person who decides whether this life, in these circumstances, with these chances should be brought into the world. The Democratic Party that that decision should be made by the potential mother. Not the father, and certainly not the state.
This is in direct contradiction to what the Republican party believes: they leave that the father and the state override whatever it is the potential mother believes. There are very few issues where there is right and wrong but this is one of them: either you believe that the primary responsibility is with the potential mother or you believe that she is chattel under the control of others. This has consequences beyond simply pregnancy: because it is clear that women are raped much more than men are; that the consequences of rape are much more dangerous for women than for men, and more of a woman’s life is spent thinking about the consequences of bringing a life into this world. This means that society and the state must protect the life that is so endangered by the vicissitudes that so litter the world.
Life is more complex for human beings than for other animals. First, we must tease away those people who think that the world is divided in the way that is first stated in the Torah and then repeated in the Bible: God is at the top, man comes next, then woman, and then all of the animals. You can believe this if you like, but there is no positive proof for it and very little negative proof for it other than anecdotes. The Democratic party believes that what the person’s conscience dictates is of no concern of the law or the state: it is completely up to the person but the law does not take a side.
The Phants believe whether they so or not, the fundamental belief is that all comes from the origin. This is found in the most extreme form in their reading of the Book of Genesis, where the first origin of the universe begins:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis, King James Edition 1:1-51
This permeates a large section of the Republican party and the people who vote reliably for Republicans. In large sections of the country, they believe in what is called Christian Nationalism, even though this was explicitly declared unconstitutional from the beginning of the Constitution. This means that there are only two genders, which means that boys are one made one way, and girls another, and never the twain should meet.
The approach of the center-left and of the Democratic party is different: every person must find their own way in the world. Some things should not be done which is why the state laws against them but every law should point to a real problem that it attempts to solve. The Republican Party does not actually believe that there should be a real problem but instead makes up fake problems to solve with real laws. “This will not do.”
This logic extends to people who are not the average but are normal: homosexuality and transgendered. If one looks at biology, one sees that homosexuality is epigenetic, that is there is no “gay gene” but a communication between the mother and the fetus that tells the as-yet-unborn to make changes which include giving them a much higher chance of being attracted to the same sex. This can be shown by looking at identical twins, and seeing that one could be heterosexual and the other homosexual and they have virtually the same genetic code. On the other hand transgendered is a genetic variation: there are differences in the genetic code. While both of these two variations are not average they are normal, in that they appear. with regularity in sufficient numbers to be at least genetically neutral if not advantageous in some circumstances. The Democratic party therefore wants the variation of human life to find its way in the cultural complex that is American society: it says that you don’t have to be average to be normal.
This is true of a variety of differences, and we celebrate those differences. After all, being an actor means going out on the extreme of human behavior and finding a way. to communicate that difference to an audience. Once one looks carefully at the mélange of variation, one sees that each of these whether normal or not needs to have a place in our society so long as they do not interfere with others. Because this is a constant threat in our society it means that this will never be resolved only controlled and contained. Of course, I am talking about social liberalism: that people should be able to express their own selves so long as it does not interfere with the others around them. Social liberalism is easy to adopt because in general, moving restrictions is easy.
Some research has shown that social liberalism has an economic effect: in one paper by Shijun Li and Bing Wang social justice tracts extremely well the growth rate of the population as a whole.2 This means that this is not just a political maneuver to use slogans but a unified whole which the center-left and the Democratic party use to pursue overall unity in economic and social areas. In the paper, they provided this graph which shows this:
The people who value social equality and social justice for themselves will tend to see that other people while being different from them also need the same protections that they do. And in fairness, the Democratic Party is good at shining a light on how social liberalism is core to the party’s identity.
Part five will talk about the structural changes that the Democratic Party must undertake to equalize the political environment.
In Hebrew:
.א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ
.ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם
.ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר
.ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאוֹר, כִּי-טוֹב; וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ
.ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם, וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה; וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם אֶחָד
Li, Shijun, and Bing Wang. 2020. “Is Social Justice the Superior Economic Growth Model? Comparative Analysis on G20 Countries.” Cogent Social Sciences 6 (1). doi:10.1080/23311886.2020.1760413.