Prosperity denudes politicians of that power and tears down those walls. Unfortunately, it’s a tactic that is unconscionably effective. Keep people fighting for scarce resources and suggesting the conservative bogeyman will take even those meager crumbs from them has instilled fear and self-defeat in these people.ĭemocrats have repeated this across virtually every social and economic demographic. This support has endured even as their place at the bottom of the socio-economic scale has endured through one Democrat administration after another over fifty-plus years. The most glaring, but by no means the only, example of the success of this strategy is manifested in the Black community and their overwhelming support they give to Democrats. Household income down – politics of division up. I hope they're listening.Posted by The Daily Caller on Friday, September 14, 2018
Home Depot Co-Founder Drops PC Nonsense – Tells Obama To Keep 'Mouth Shut' They have made it a central focus of every campaign in memory to identify and single out different demographic groups for victimhood and assigning them hyphenated American status.Īnd, whether Republicans went along for the ride, or sometimes adopted those policies as their own if can’t hide the fact that over those same past few decades American families have had to get by with declining household incomes. Nice try Barry, but the politics of division has been the bulwark of Democrat electoral strategy for decades. “The past few decades the politics of division and resentment and paranoia have unfortunately found a home in the Republican party.” Just pay some heed to Obama’s recent comments, meant to be critical of President Trump, that chart the history of divisive political discourse in America. Langone’s employees are examples of something that we’ve been saying here for a long time: Prosperity brings peace.Īlternatively, competition for scarce resources allows political opportunists to drive a wedge between different social and ethnic groups for their own purposes.
That fuels store over store economic growth and increases opportunities for each employee even further. Similarly, the success of other Home Depot stores gives customers the confidence to walk into any Home Depot store expecting the same great service. His employees know that the success of the store they work in translates to their success as a group – and individually. On any visit to one of Ken Langone’s stores you’ll meet a broadly diverse team of employees all working together for a common goal – servicing the customer.