>Coincidentally those who criticize it never offer alternative realistic solutions. The choice to depict, say, Sanders' proposals as unrealistic by straw manni

>Coincidentally those who criticize it never offer alternative realistic solutions. The choice to depict, say, Sanders' proposals as unrealistic by straw manning them was a deliberate political attack: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/01/22/What-Liberal-Attacks-Bernie-Sanders-Are-Really-About http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/01/22/What-Libera... Unfortunately the average Democrat primary voter didn't dig into the substance of the attack well enough to realize that it was essentially bullshit. They simply believed Krugman's lies. The voters wanted a change from the status quo. And that is why Trump is now your president. A similar dynamic is now occurring in the UK. Corbyn's ideas (e.g. rail nationalization/pay caps) are routinely depicted as unrealistic. If people continue to believe those lies, the far right will be seen instead as the 'viable' alternative. The same kinds of economists who declare pay caps unrealistic and are weirdly enough absolutely blind to unsustainable build ups of debt causing financial crises but pretend that magic robots are about to put 80% of us out of work in the next ten years. That's "realistic" I suppose.