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Coronavirus Proves Relevance, Necessity of Democrats’ Plan to Support American Lives Heading into 2020 Election
In his 1980 campaign against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”
The powerful question gave voters clear and focused direction in assessing how well the federal government was supporting and working to improve the everyday lives of Americans.
What if we asked such a question now, with various related questions?
Are you feeling safer and healthier? Are you feeling the nation’s leaders are looking out for your overall welfare and well-being in medical, educational, and economic terms, as well as every other dimension of your lives?
In short, how are you feeling, in every sense of that word?
Andrew Yang really brought the many layers of this question to the fore last December when underscored the need to measure of the health of our economy in terms of Americans’ psychological, emotional, and physical well-being. Is an economy successful if the majority of people that system is supposed to serve are depressed and suicidal, unable to access quality education and healthcare, uncertain and insecure — downright scared — about having adequate housing, being able to retire with…
