The Right Answer: on Principles & Values


John Delaney: The enemy is hyper-partisan politics

The hard truth is that we're living in an era of hyperpartisan politics, and it's destroying our country. Particularly since the 2016 election, this rabid partisanship has been pulling communities apart. Worse, it's preventing us from seizing the large-scale opportunities that await the next generation, and it's making it impossible for us to address the urgent problems that are threatening our quality of life. Instead of rebuilding our country, we're tearing each other down.

The cost of doing nothing is not nothing. The longer we delay addressing these problems, the worse they become. The longer we delay leading our country into the future, the more opportunities slip away.

But the enemy is NOT the person on the other sid

Source: The Right Answer, by Rep. John Delaney, p. 4 May 29, 2018

John Delaney: No persuasive data to suggest embracing socialism

My policies are often progressive, but I'm also a businessman. To my mind, the way to advance our ideals is not by fighting against the private economy but by working with it. In purely pragmatic terms, doing so will make us stronger both financially and politically.

For those who suggest that the Democratic Party should move farther left and embrace socialism, I would argue that there's no credible evidence that this evolution would win us more elections or gain more support. There are also no pragmatic data suggesting that any other nation has a better economic model than ours. Using the wedge of the private economy to split our party into two opposing factions is the last thing we should do, because now more than ever we need to be unified.

Source: The Right Answer, by Rep. John Delaney, p. 97 May 29, 2018

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    How We Can Unify Our Divided Nation
    by John K. Delaney    .
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