Obama won pretty convincingly on "no red America and blue America, only United States of America". Winning campaign message even if his actual governance was still highly partisan (intransigent Republican congress forced the issue).
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Compare and contrast with two losers: Romney "48% of the country is a bunch of worthless mooches asking for handouts" Clinton "48% of the country is deplorable"
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I don’t think you can just make up alternatives to jingoistic nationalism narratives with a more noble turn of phrase. You need a unifying growth mission like Apollo in 1961 — something that allows a people to grow together in a way that’s not about war or external threat
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this I do agree with. the big projects we thought we would work on together under Obama turned out badly though. We didn't get a good national health care system. We didn't get a good economic realignment. We didn't get justice for those injured in the 2008 crash.
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Those don’t even qualify actually. They are deficiency motivation rather than growth motivation. Better than wars and hitlers but not as romantic as Apollo, Wild West, gold rush etc.
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arguably the entire space program (Apollo included) was also deficiency motivated. super power weapons technology competition was driving most of it, and in 1961 America was noticeably lagging behind USSR. I don't see this as much different than Health Care, just better optics.
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