KRUGMAN: 'The GOP Zombie Apocalypse - 2016 is already set up to be the election of the living dead.'

[kpete]

“Pundits will try to pretend that we’re having a serious policy debate, but, as far as issues go,
2016 is already set up to be the election of the living dead.”

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Supply-side economics, it’s now clear, is the ultimate zombie:
no amount of evidence or logic can kill it.

So why has the Republican Party experienced a zombie apocalypse? One reason, surely, is the fact that most Republican politicians represent states or districts that will never, ever vote for a Democrat, so the only thing they fear is a challenge from the far right. Another is the need to tell Big Money what it wants to hear: a candidate saying anything realistic about Obamacare or tax cuts won’t survive the Sheldon Adelson/Koch brothers primary.

Whatever the reasons, the result is clear. Pundits will try to pretend that we’re having a serious policy debate, but, as far as issues go, 2016 is already set up to be the election of the living dead.



more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/opinion/paul-krugman-zombies-of-2016.html?ref=todayspaper

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I agree with Krugman about 90% of the time.

This is sure one of them.

The two things I have against him (as I do against virtually all economists that get popular coverage) are, first, that he posits the need for continued economic growth to fuel the system, and, second, only things of monetary value are taken into consideration. How much is a hardwood-covered mountain worth? It's worth the price of the coal under the trees.

[Gothmog]

2. Supply side economics have been a failure

Demand side economics work. The GOP is locked into supply side economics to benefit the one percent and this will hurt them

[4dsc]

3. Too bad Democratic Party members don't repeat this message

over and over and over again.

[HereSince1628]

5. Seems to me it's been working right along for the rich.

As their taxes have gone down their wealth and freedom from prosecution have gone way up.

I don't think it was ever supposed to do more than that.

[Martin Eden]

4. K&Rugman

We certainly live in a bizarre country where a major political party can consistently advocate demonstrably failed economic policies, yet consistently win elections.

[lindysalsagal]

6. It's a delusional world. I wish there were a planet somewhere

that had a species of realists. I'd join up.

I'm just so done with delusion. And it seems to be the default human condition.

[Scurrilous]

7. "Send more Republicans..."

[Cha]

8. Kick

[CTyankee]

9. Yep. Thanks, Dr. K. You are right on as usual.