Social Democratic America (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I EXPECT THE size and scope of American social policy will expand significantly in coming decades. My reasoning can be stated simply: • The United States has deficiencies in economic security, opportunity, and shared prosperity. • The economic and social trends at fault will continue and perhaps get worse. • Experience here and abroad suggests that government social programs can help. • Policy makers try to solve problems. Reason and evidence will lead some of them to propose new government programs and the expansion of existing ones. • On occasion, they will succeed. (The hypothesis doesn’t specify when or why. It’s probabilistic.) • Those successes will tend to stick. This is how social policy in the United States has evolved over the past century. It has expanded in fits and starts, bursts and lulls. Movement has been largely forward; backsliding has been rare. Simple extrapolation suggests that this is what we should expect for the future. Further advance won’t necessarily happen soon, and progress almost certainly won’t be steady or regular.
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