Democrats have a historic opportunity. They must not make the rich richer.
The Great Depression helped the party make good on its founding principles. The Trump administration has created a similar moment for real change.
'After seven months of polling and soul-searching, the Democratic leadership has unveiled its program for moving forward past the debacle of 2016.
In a New York Times op-ed on 24 July, the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, placed the blame for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the electoral college on the Democrats: they had been too timid and vague in articulating a vision for the country. But that, he promised, was changing. The Democrats had devised a program – a Better Deal for the American Worker – to offer to the American people. That deal had three legs: better pay, lower expenses, and investments in programs that would give workers tools to compete in the21st-century economy.
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Critics immediately pointed out that these policy proposals were hardly new for the Democrats, who have called for similar programs in the past, and that calling their plan a “better deal” presumed that the current deal was good.
And therein lies the rub. The rise of Donald Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left signaled that Americans hate the current deal. While Trump and Sanders each had distinctive supporters, both spoke to the reality that since 1980, the political policies of neoliberalism have concentrated wealth in the pockets of a tiny elite.
Statistics bear this out:'>>>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/democrats-trump-better-deal-income-inequality?
