“The economy is rigged. The banking system is rigged... you haven't had an effective wage increase" [View all]

[Attorney in Texas]

“The economy is rigged. The banking system is rigged. There's a lot of things that are rigged in this world of ours, and that's why a lot of you haven't had an effective wage increase in 20 years, folks. And we're going to change it. We're going to change it. We're going to change it fast.”

This is not a Sanders' quote -- this is a quote from Trump.

Hillary needs to take steps to make her campaign more responsive to the needs of those seeking economic fairness NOW or Trump WILL TAKE THOSE VOTES just like Reagan took those votes from Jimmy Carter.

I'm not talking about phony campaign rhetoric and empty promises that everyone sees through. That will not carry the day.

If she wants to win the nomination and the general election,

* Hillary needs to enlist Sanders' help (or Elizabeth Warren's help if she hasn't yet come to terms with the fact that she's lost about 45% of the party to the Sanders-Warren-FDR wing of FDR's party) in crafting the platform to embrace economic populism.

* Hillary needs to kick the lobbyists and payday-loan vultures out of the DNC and, if she can't bring herself to wield the axe, she ought to enlist Sanders' help in the process.

* Hillary needs to reform the Democratic Party rules literally designed to "protect" the nomination process from the grassroots Democrats by installing a bunch of lobbyists and other "superdelegates" to make the Democratic party less democratic, and if she does not want to be the person who returns the power from the lobbyists to the grassroots voters, she ought to enlist Sanders' help.

Hillary must not wait to the convention to re-tool.

Hillary is playing chess and Trump is playing checkers, and it has not yet been decided whether this is a chess match or a game of checkers.

Those independents, millennial Democrats, and economically downtrodden voters of all parties will be deciding whether the game is checkers or chess, and if Hillary cannot retool to increase her appeal beyond conservative and middle-aged-and-older Democrats, it won't matter if she wins the nomination and skates past the FBI investigation and numerous civil FOIA lawsuits.