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We must change how we evaluate political candidates, political parties & elected officials

Eric Foster
10 min readApr 10, 2021

For the sake of our Families, our Children & our Country; we must measure our political participants by how their policy positions directly impact our personal Quality of Daily Living (QDL) metrics.

Government at work

2021 has delivered a convergence of tangible public policy, quality of life impacts, quiet respectful leadership and demand side economic realism against radical American terrorism, culturalized hate driven by Conservative Mainstream media, supply side economic fantasies and a lack of public policy. So why does this build up matter? Because we have spent 4 years hell during Trump and 6 years gridlock under a Republican led House of Representatives and 40 years under Supply Side Economic theory/Government is the enemy/Tax cuts are the savior and the quality of life for the overwhelming majority of Americans haven’t improved at a pace comparable with previous generations. Tangible policy that directly touches the stages of life, the personal economics of families and the ability to end each year ahead have been replaced with victim shaming, outrage at issues that don’t impact one’s daily life and a constant state of grievance. Federal and State legislative bills and new statutory laws regarding restricting voting rights, banning “yoga” from schools for fears of exposing children to Buddhism or…

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Eric Foster
Eric Foster

Written by Eric Foster

I'm a Father, 10th generation American (family roots to South Carolina, 1725 roughly), Political, Public Policy, Economic Theory & Data Analytics SME.

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