Should the Democratic Party directly target income inequality in 2014 and beyond?

[Ken Burch]

If no, what should be targeted instead...and if not, how else can the party get hard-hit people, middle-class, working-class and the jobless, to go to the polls at all?

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	Yes, they should target income inequality directly
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	They should target income inequality, but only indirectly
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	They shouldn't target income inequality at all-other things matter much more(state which other things below)
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[leftstreet]

1. Not unless they've got a plan

If they're just spouting 'we feel your pain' bullshit to get elected, it'll bite them on their arses

People are fed up

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Yes!

[TheKentuckian]

4. Have to agree. Bullshit walks.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Yes, income inequality is the disease, a shrinking middle class is just a symptom.

Thanks for the thread, Ken Burch.

[BillZBubb]

5. Not directly, indirectly would broaden the voter support.

Going directly at income inequality would allow the right wing to parry with their standard talking points: income redistribution, class warfare, socialism, penalizing success...the usual claptrap. Unfortunately, those talking points resonate with independents.

We need an indirect approach that looks at policies aimed at helping the middle class and working classes RECOVER. That should be the theme. The poor and jobless would be included in that because they would have opportunities as the middle and working classes grow.

The policies must be BOLD, not the usual milquetoast platitudes. For instance, restore tax rates on those making over $200K to their 1993 (Clinton years) level. The reagan/republican tax scheme has had a disastrous effect on the middle and working classes. The decline began with those cuts. The bush tax cuts made matters even worse. They promised an economic boom, instead we go a near depression and huge debts. The well off need to pay their fair share, not get more and more tax cuts.