Comments on: American Challenges: The Blue Model Breaks Down http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/ Walter Russell Mead's Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hear That Whistle Blowin’? « View From a Height http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-53496 Hear That Whistle Blowin’? « View From a Height Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:51:05 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-53496 [...] not govern as a centrist. She would likely be a more effective salesman for the old, unimaginative Blue Social Model policies that doom us to Europe’s fiscal fate, [...] [...] not govern as a centrist. She would likely be a more effective salesman for the old, unimaginative Blue Social Model policies that doom us to Europe’s fiscal fate, [...]

]]> By: Why Dems can’t quit Occupy Wall Street « The Greenroom http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-50620 Why Dems can’t quit Occupy Wall Street « The Greenroom Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:24:38 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-50620 [...] likely gets wrong is the part about “everyone” knowing the model no longer works. As Mead wrote pre-OWS, the Blue Model was very much about selling people security within that model. And [...] [...] likely gets wrong is the part about “everyone” knowing the model no longer works. As Mead wrote pre-OWS, the Blue Model was very much about selling people security within that model. And [...]

]]> By: William James Smith http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-49777 William James Smith Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:13:07 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-49777 Dude, You rule. Speachless after this amazing breakdown of the real "vested interests". The Orator from Oz Dude, You rule. Speachless after this amazing breakdown of the real “vested interests”.

The Orator from Oz

]]> By: ExExZonie http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-49595 ExExZonie Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:29:22 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-49595 Looking back over almost two years of convulsive history, the Tea Party rebellion, the occupiers (however deluded they are in their "solutions" which are formed from blue-school indoctrination), union reforms in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. - prescient and insightful. An amazing article, to be favorably compared with Angelo Codevilla's excellent essay on the Ruling Class. http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print Looking back over almost two years of convulsive history, the Tea Party rebellion, the occupiers (however deluded they are in their “solutions” which are formed from blue-school indoctrination), union reforms in Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. – prescient and insightful. An amazing article, to be favorably compared with Angelo Codevilla’s excellent essay on the Ruling Class.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

]]> By: California Nightmares: Reflections on the “California Dream Act” « Timothy Nunan http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-44986 California Nightmares: Reflections on the “California Dream Act” « Timothy Nunan Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:24:29 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-44986 [...] too. The crippling pension obligations owed to the unions make California a perfect example of the blue social model that is coming across at the seams all across America today. The state GOP could play a [...] [...] too. The crippling pension obligations owed to the unions make California a perfect example of the blue social model that is coming across at the seams all across America today. The state GOP could play a [...]

]]> By: Progressive nostalgia shovels against the tide of global chaos | FavStocks http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-44295 Progressive nostalgia shovels against the tide of global chaos | FavStocks Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:18:07 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-44295 [...] Paul Krungman and Frank Rich, beat Kazin to it.  Lindsey’s analysis even predates the Walter Russell Mead diagnosis of the death of “the blue model”: The blue model rested on the post-Second [...] [...] Paul Krungman and Frank Rich, beat Kazin to it.  Lindsey’s analysis even predates the Walter Russell Mead diagnosis of the death of “the blue model”: The blue model rested on the post-Second [...]

]]> By: Progressive nostalgia shovels against the tide of global chaos « The Greenroom http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-44253 Progressive nostalgia shovels against the tide of global chaos « The Greenroom Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:26:58 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-44253 [...] Paul Krungman and Frank Rich, beat Kazin to it. Lindsey’s analysis even predates the Walter Russell Mead diagnosis of the death of “the blue model”: The blue model rested on the post-Second [...] [...] Paul Krungman and Frank Rich, beat Kazin to it. Lindsey’s analysis even predates the Walter Russell Mead diagnosis of the death of “the blue model”: The blue model rested on the post-Second [...]

]]> By: From LA to Oxford to John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Affluent Society” « Timothy Nunan http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-43945 From LA to Oxford to John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Affluent Society” « Timothy Nunan Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:35:27 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-43945 [...] a digestible pro-market ideology that still finds a way to care about poverty and inequality. And this inability of, broadly, Baby Boomer policy intellectuals and policymakers is disappointing in the face of the Great [...] [...] a digestible pro-market ideology that still finds a way to care about poverty and inequality. And this inability of, broadly, Baby Boomer policy intellectuals and policymakers is disappointing in the face of the Great [...]

]]> By: The Californias I Have Known « Timothy Nunan http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-41773 The Californias I Have Known « Timothy Nunan Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:14:51 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-41773 [...] in the entire United States, and handles 3 million jurors every year. Throw in the variety of Blue Social Model benefits (healthcare, pensions, lifetime employment, difficult-to-fire non-tenured employees) and [...] [...] in the entire United States, and handles 3 million jurors every year. Throw in the variety of Blue Social Model benefits (healthcare, pensions, lifetime employment, difficult-to-fire non-tenured employees) and [...]

]]> By: Mike Quinlan http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/01/28/american-challenges-the-blue-model-breaks-down/#comment-41770 Mike Quinlan Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:57:57 +0000 http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/?p=2393#comment-41770 I am blown away. Are you completely ignorant about 19th and early 20th century capitalism? Have you no idea as to the hows and whys of globalization? I am really curious where Nazi Germany fits in to your blue model? Was America's wartime economy really the low point? Conceptually I am trying to get my head around this notion of a seven decade experiment? Seemingly real life politics and history are seen as an experiment based on the application of some flawed master plan theory? Why does it date back only seven decades? Was FDR really so radical that ideas and policies he advanced had no prior historical basis? Why this penchant for simplistic models and purely ideological thinking??? I am blown away. Are you completely ignorant about 19th and early 20th century capitalism?
Have you no idea as to the hows and whys of globalization? I am really curious where Nazi Germany fits in to your blue model? Was America’s wartime economy really the low point? Conceptually I am trying to get my head around this notion of a seven decade experiment? Seemingly real life politics and history are seen as an experiment based on the application of some flawed master plan theory? Why does it date back only seven decades? Was FDR really so radical that ideas and policies he advanced had no prior historical basis? Why this penchant for simplistic models and purely ideological thinking???

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