The American Dream Is Antithetical to Communism and the Democrat Party

Work Is Essential to the American Dream By Robert Doar AEIdeas May 04, 2023 -Work is one of the foundations of American life. Almost always, being employed and earning income gives individuals the opportunity, responsibility, and community they need to flourish. The broader importance of work can’t be understated. A larger workforce also contributes significantly to our general prosperity allowing us to afford, among other things, a more effective safety net and better schools. In our divided time, a belief in the benefits of work is one value that still brings Americans together.

Last month, almost 80 percent of voters in Wisconsin approved a ballot initiative calling for work requirements on all taxpayer-funded welfare programs for able-bodied recipients without children. As I wrote shortly after the vote, this referendum shows how support for work can unite most voters, even in a polarized state. Americans intuitively agree with the social science research showing a combination of work and government support provides the surest path out of poverty for struggling individuals........

The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism By Scott Winship | Thomas O’Rourke The Social Breakdown May 03, 2023 - When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion, he wrote, “must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions.”[1] Over a century and a half later, reviewing the state of American community life, Robert Putnam affirmed Tocqueville’s observation. In his magisterial Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Putnam noted that “faith communities in which people worship together are arguably the single most important repository of social capital in America.”............

How the White Working Class Could Sink the Democrats…Again By Ruy Teixeira The Liberal Patriot May 04, 2023  -  With Trump running again and looking like he could easily be the 2024 Republican nominee, it’s a good time to cast your mind back to the first Trump shock of 2016. At the time, almost no one thought he could win.  And yet he did. While there were a lot of moving parts to Trump’s victory, the key development was a surge of white working-class voters into his column. This was true all over the country but particularly in competitive, but heavily white working-class, states like Iowa (23 point white working-class margin swing away from the Democrats), Ohio (16 point swing), Wisconsin (13 points), Michigan (11 points) and Pennsylvania (9 points).

While it’s still not widely-appreciated, a crucial factor in Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump was his ability to stop the bleeding among white working-class voters. These voters were the dog that didn’t bark in the 2020 election. Biden even managed a slight improvement among the white working class, moving them in the direction of the Democrats by 2 points nationally and by similar amounts in  key states..............

Complicated Nature of Tech Sector Gives Cover to Climate Change Agenda Allan J. Feifer Academic and government elites who push for communism through “climate change” find the perfect exploitable opportunity in the booming field of technology — and capitalize. More