The Urgent Need for a Plan to Boost National Productivity

The Democratic Party's platform is the same as what Obama , Biden , and the Democrats gave us, just a lot more "progressive" (i.e., hard left) and is lacking what the country needs most, which is a good plan for creating broad-based productivity.

Neither party has a credible plan for providing what we need most, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: History has shown that no system/order will be sustainable unless most people are given the skills, opportunities to be productive.

Paul Waldman says populist politics on both sides are threatening the effective running of our system.

Waldman: The choice is between too extreme controls and government interventions from the Harris-Walz-Democratic side left and too extreme lack of controls from the Trump-Vance-Republican side right.

As a result, the aggregate is deteriorating financially, socially, and politically, he says.

Plato , back in 375 BC in The Republic , explained the big cycle of governments which we have seen play out many times before and are seeing play out now.

Plato feared that democracy could devolve into a tyranny of the majority, where demagogues manipulate public opinion to gain power.

The world operates like a highly cyclical perpetual motion machine to produce the events that happen.