I have to jump in here. While you condemn "liberalism," liberal policies work. What are these policies? High taxes on the rich; policies that help workers, such as a high minimum wage and policies that encourage labor.
We see the achievement of liberalism vs conservatism in the Twentieth Century. At the beginning of the 20th Century, conservatism ruled, and resulted in public policy that did little to limit extremes of wealth and poverty. As a result, most people lived hand-to-mouth and had little savings. Most average Americans could not afford to send their children to college.
The creation of the middle-class society was
created, in a remarkably short period of time, by FDR and the New Deal. Income inequality declined drastically from the late 1930s to the mid 1940s, with the rich losing ground while working Americans saw unprecedented gains.
Since the late 1970s these gains unraveled. We’re no longer a middle-class society, in which the benefits of economic growth are widely shared: between 1979 and 2005 the real income of the median household rose only 13 percent, but the income of the richest 0.1% of Americans rose 296 percent. We see it in the chart below:
Why do I support liberal policies?
Because liberal policies work.
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