Re: "...continued erosion of Democratic support...Mason City."-----Brief Explanation by one lifelong Iowa Democrat!
Since the 1970s, the traditional private sector manufacturing-industrial foundation of the U.S. economy has been eroding. One-half of the traditional U.S. "public-private economic partnership" has broken-away from, and abandoned, a 200 year-old plus economic partnership--the U.S. Constitution-rooted, informal, America-first, public-private economic partnership, which was created by/for the American people, through the U.S. Constitution!
The private sector manufacturing-industrial foundation of the U.S. economy, in 2024, now consists of all "multinational corporations", or global-centered corporations-- unlike 1900, when that foundation consisted all of "national corporations, or American-centered corporations. This structural change, in the foundation of the U.S. economy--from national to multinational corporations (see U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data and corporate "Mission Statements") marks a new, unprecedented, economic era in the history of the U.S. economy.
With the above dissolution of the traditional economic foundation of the U.S. economy, since, at least the 1970s, and the resulting growing economic dissatisfaction/distress of the American people---Mr. Trump and "his brand of America First" now rushes-in, in 2016, and, again, in 2024, to fill the above "economic partnership-void"----all without any strong, popular, counter-economic agenda by the Democratic Party, which reflects/embraces the above, real, America first economic agenda--- the U.S. Constitution-rooted America first commitment by/for the American people: "We the people...promote the general Welfare...". There are the words of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
To win elections, again, in my view, the Democratic Party must return to, and implement, the above-described U.S. Constitution-rooted America first economic policies/agenda. Indeed, in my view, given the 21st century global economy, and, given the new, "technological race" with China (see China's "Made in China 2025" economic program)---the Democratic Party has the Constitutional responsibility to do so!
In my view, the above circumstances, generally speaking, explain the "continued erosion of Democratic support", not only in Iowa, but throughout the United States---and the new challenges before the Democratic Party.
Clarification to my above comments---I am a lifelong Democrat, who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa; and, after working/retiring in Arizona, returned to live in Coralville, Iowa, in 2021.
Re: "...continued erosion of Democratic support...Mason City."-----Brief Explanation by one lifelong Iowa Democrat!
Since the 1970s, the traditional private sector manufacturing-industrial foundation of the U.S. economy has been eroding. One-half of the traditional U.S. "public-private economic partnership" has broken-away from, and abandoned, a 200 year-old plus economic partnership--the U.S. Constitution-rooted, informal, America-first, public-private economic partnership, which was created by/for the American people, through the U.S. Constitution!
The private sector manufacturing-industrial foundation of the U.S. economy, in 2024, now consists of all "multinational corporations", or global-centered corporations-- unlike 1900, when that foundation consisted all of "national corporations, or American-centered corporations. This structural change, in the foundation of the U.S. economy--from national to multinational corporations (see U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data and corporate "Mission Statements") marks a new, unprecedented, economic era in the history of the U.S. economy.
With the above dissolution of the traditional economic foundation of the U.S. economy, since, at least the 1970s, and the resulting growing economic dissatisfaction/distress of the American people---Mr. Trump and "his brand of America First" now rushes-in, in 2016, and, again, in 2024, to fill the above "economic partnership-void"----all without any strong, popular, counter-economic agenda by the Democratic Party, which reflects/embraces the above, real, America first economic agenda--- the U.S. Constitution-rooted America first commitment by/for the American people: "We the people...promote the general Welfare...". There are the words of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
To win elections, again, in my view, the Democratic Party must return to, and implement, the above-described U.S. Constitution-rooted America first economic policies/agenda. Indeed, in my view, given the 21st century global economy, and, given the new, "technological race" with China (see China's "Made in China 2025" economic program)---the Democratic Party has the Constitutional responsibility to do so!
In my view, the above circumstances, generally speaking, explain the "continued erosion of Democratic support", not only in Iowa, but throughout the United States---and the new challenges before the Democratic Party.
Richard Sherzan
Clarification to my above comments---I am a lifelong Democrat, who grew up in Des Moines, Iowa; and, after working/retiring in Arizona, returned to live in Coralville, Iowa, in 2021.
Richard Sherzan