Conservative track record is not pretty. Creative destruction.

The creative destruction of “For the People” produced economics disrupting Democracy and fostering Fascism. Obviously, many of the economic and societal benefits for the people, resulting from the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the Great Society era in America, in the last century have been lost over the last fifty years. 

Clearly, the conservative Republican Raw Deal, served up by the evangelicals and the Cult of Ignorance over the last 50 years has effectively transformed the previous government mandate “for the people” to the current mandate “for the accumulation of wealth by the wealthy.” 

The conservative’s Raw Deal program that produced the economic loss for 90% of the people, also failed to “promote the general Welfare,” as specified in the Constitution’s preamble.  Today, the economic disaster is also being reflected in the poverty and life expectancy rates in the nation. Both rates improved until the 90s, then went stagnant from the Reaganomics disaster.  

The Republican led house, basically since 1994, only worsened the problem with additional tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending, to hide the economic wounds they created and societal hardships they were creating. 

 The 14% Poverty rate of today is higher than the 12% in 1980. While conservatives might  say its only 2% worse, they ignore the fact that the population has also grown by almost 100 million people and that 39 million is more than twice as many people in poverty. With nearly 20% of kids under 18 living in poverty, the number of poor  being produced by the Raw Deal can only get worse.

In addition to producing poverty, the Raw Deal is impacting life expectancy as well.In case you have not heard about it, the life expectancy rates have declined for the last three years, for the first time in over a century of record keeping.

In global terms, the U.S. Human Development Index rating from the United Nations, declined to 25th, from 5th, over the last twenty years, as a result of so many people earning less in “real income” and dying early.

The quality of life in the US has also declined in various other ways. Higher educational rates stimulated by the GI Bill, the Eisenhower era, and the war on poverty commitments to education are now producing school-debt-burdened families that owe the government over a trillion dollars, for the government’s failure to fund education.

Economically and socially, the congressional failure over the last 50 years is inconceivable and nearly defies any rational explanation. The government performance over the period violates capitalistic principles and Christian values. 

While it is hard to accept, only successful gerrymandering, psychological warfare and Pavlovian training of the Baby Boomers and Generation Xers can explain why they have elected and re-elected the underperforming Congressional representatives over the last half century.  The election of presidents, without receiving a majority of the votes casted, reflects the same perverted successes of gerrymandering and psychological warfare. 

I sure hope the millennials can help patch the political hole, in 2020.