Ken Padgett

  You would think that with all the turmoil in the Republican Party, they wouldn't be in any shape to take control of Congress in the next election. Think again!  Many of the voters who rejected Trump in 2020 will not reject the GOP in 2022.  The House will be gone for sure and even if somehow the Dems manage to preserve a slim majority in the Senate, the gridlock will remain. Why are the Dems going to lose? Because they have failed to communicate effectively on these issues: 1     Identity Politics 2.    BLM 3.    1619 Project 4.    Critical race theory 5.    Systemic Racism 6.    Defund the Police 7.    Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City… 8.    “Bipartisanship” failures 9.     Failure to stop Cyber attacks 10.   The Border 11.   Voter suppression 12.   Gerrymandering 13....

Our current economic problems were not caused by the Obama administration. The economic collapse, the resulting unemployment rate, and the huge deficit are the result of the Bush administration and his two wars. And now Republicans are telling us that our economic problems are the result of government regulations, especially those on banks and the stock market. Haven't they been paying attention? Weren't those policies what caused the economic collapse in the first place? Republican policies have caused a massive shift of wealth from the middle class to the rich, reducing demand for consumer goods and causing cutbacks in manufacturing, which leads to more unemployment. The austerity measures Republicans are now proposing will only make the situation worse. Republicans claim "Job Creators" base their hiring decisions on tax policy, but the truth is that hiring decisions are based on demand for products and services, and demand will not improve as lon...

Why is support for Republican ideas so strong among many of the people who are suffering the most because of those same ideas? It’s because of how skilled Republicans are at framing issues in ways that are beneficial to them and because their messaging is more effective due to the fact that it is much better organized and better financed than Democrats. Republicans would have you believe that Obama is solely responsible for the bad economy, as if everything was going fine till he took office.  However, the facts are otherwise: Obama didn't create the economic crisis. Obama didn't start the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has never had a free hand to do what he wanted to do. Republicans have openly bragged about doing everything they could to make Obama a one-term President. Republicans have sabotaged every legislative attempt to promote job growth so as to improve their chances in the next election. Of course Obama and the Democrats deserve plenty of blame for the ...