The Republicans have long been in the pocket of the really big MNC freer trade cartels, and really want to ignore so-called domestic employment, and economic matters altogether, as no longer directly relevant.
Their agenda is global rather than American in focus, but the average Republican still does not know this because of all the redirected moralistic propaganda.
To fight this pestilence, the Democrats have been limited to largely the same systemically limited economic tools of both parties, for generations now, because they have been limited to the political system within which there are no other, real, more aggressive, economic or social options for the federal government, and the federal government itself would rein in any highly unlikely big socio-economic initiatives of individual states.
You either blindly, and unilluminatingly, 'reduce taxes' and government with Republicans, or 'tax and spend' ('jobs', any old jobs, simpliciter) with Democrats, although technically these 'alternatives' have not even held true, over time, with Republicans often outspending Democrats.
The actual differences between their constituencies, agendas, policies, and basic tools, has not been that great, really, in spite of the shrill rhetoric.
Neither party has had much incentive to change markedly the sliding status quo, and neither has the political will (read powerful political patronage) to move toward drastic reform.
No thought can be given to any larger or deeper types of roles between government and private sector activities.
Little thought could be given, in the present political framework, to agendas in which industrial and commercial sectors were promoted, strengthened, or encouraged, in ways seen so successful in some other countries.
In this context, the notion of creating just 'jobs' simpliciter, or conversely of just reducing taxes simpliciter, rather than inspiring and promoting larger competitive, or even merely productive, domestic initiatives, will not engender a movement out of the economic and political malaise into which the US has long been sinking as against its so-called 'strategic partners'.
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