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Yep. The wealth gap has reached it's tipping point so that enough voters are pissed off. That thought is made true by the the election of Trump again. It's the fact now that the crook zillionaires are still the master of the message that too now says the voters are not yet pissed off enough to look at it enough to understand who the most culpable culprit creators of the gap really are. The oligarch disinformation machine is a front and center problem now. Conservative disinformation is still conning the voters now, and Democrats must come up with a successful strategy to overcome the swindle Trump and his oligarchs are pulling on the world.

"The gap between the rich and the struggling might have found a chasm that sticks. Insurance parasites that make millions annually, contribute nothing to actual health care, while denying enough claims to make sure they get their annual stock options have been put on notice, and are now hiding like scared quail after one got taken out.

I hope it becomes a back door to pushing for things like medicare for all. The more the oligarchs fight it the more people are getting pissed. and not even purely political. Adding a few hundred per month on the premiums to support more millionaire leeches just got a pimple popped, they better adjust or might end up on the wrong side of a developing mob."

Health Care for All: A Framework for Moving to a Primary Care-Based Health Care System in the United States
https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/health-care-for-all.html

It's been awhile now since Hanauer first mentioned the pitchforks you alluded
to, and he and some other zillionaires are doing their bit. See again:

hap0206, Fact is Dems are better for the economy than Republicans are. You have been given that factual history many times, and it's message is loud and clear that whatever the extra burdens the present two wars your two Trump buddies Netanyahu and Putin are imposing on the world Democrats will do better with the economy that Trump's fascist-like Republicans would. And, the U.S., in spite of Trump's isolationist efforts is still part of the greater world.
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The Transformation at the Heart of Biden’s Middle-Out Economic Agenda
The economy is not about money; it’s about people.
by Nick Hanauer February 9, 2023
[...]
.. with much more .. Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
"It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam"
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Republicans have excelled at consistently advancing an overall narrative about how the economy grows and how jobs are created. And they have been rewarded by the public, who score the party as better stewards of the economy. The public believes Republicans are better at running the economy even though their trickle-down claims that tax cuts for the rich create growth, that raising wages kills jobs, and that any form of regulation on large corporations destroys productivity have been repeatedly disproven. In fact, the historical record shows that the Republican policy agenda did nothing but enrich their big donors and increase budget deficits.

By contrast, Democrats have promoted a wide range of popular policies but provided no clear and consistent counternarrative of how those policies grow the economy and create prosperity. Too often, Democrats have even echoed the Republican trickle-down narrative or merely talked about fairness, which sends the message that there is a trade-off between growth and fairness. No wonder most people think Democrats don’t understand the economy.

Human beings use economic narrative to understand how the world works. It shapes how they see economic cause and effect.

The middle-out story that President Biden is telling is not just a narrative; it’s also grounded in empirical economic evidence gathered over decades. Biden and his advisers understand that the economic policies of the past 40 years were animated by a fundamental misunderstanding of how economic growth and widespread prosperity is created. Massive corporate concentration, reductions in worker power and wages, and lower taxes for the rich do not create economic growth and a thriving middle class. Instead, we have seen the real result: entrenching wealth and power among the few and creating historic levels of wealth and income inequality.

Trickle-down economics has its cause and effect backwards. The essence of the middle-out approach to policy is recognizing that the economy isn’t money—it’s people. And the better that everyday American families do, the more the middle class thrives, the stronger the economy.

This new approach is based on, as President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers wrote in a 2021 issue brief .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/05/11/building-back-better-the-american-jobs-plan-and-the-american-families-plan/ , a growing body of “empirical evidence that a strong economy depends on a solid foundation of public investment, and that investments in workers, families, and communities can pay off for decades to come.”

Eric Beinhocker, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, further explains: “It is the broad middle of the population that does the bulk of the working, innovating, and spending in the economy. Shared growth doesn’t come from giving tax cuts to rich people or deregulating the powerful, it comes from investing in, supporting, and building a large, inclusive middle class.”

Economic inclusion—the full economic participation of as many people in the economy as possible—drives a virtuous circle between increasing innovation and demand for new and better products and services, as well as creating better, higher-paying jobs. When the economy grows in that way, the lives of most people get better, not just those at the top. Economic justice and economic growth always go hand in hand.

THREE CORE IMPERATIVES ARE ESSENTIAL to building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out: (1) raising incomes and lowering costs to enable all Americans to participate robustly in the economy; (2) increasing both human and material capabilities to ensure that people have both the individual capability and the material infrastructure to robustly participate in the economy; and (3) managing markets to maximize competition and innovation, encouraging economic activity that is aimed at solving the key problems society faces while discouraging cheating, exploitation, and parasitism.

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hap0206, You'd be better off sitting with your wife, sipping a martini, looking at a view
and feeling special than you are cheering on you misguided policies and people here.

Correction: Just noticed that last sentence should be

...than you are cheering on your misguided policies and people here.

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Trump and his people will continue to abuse the people, the justice system and democracy as much as they can.

They and their disinformation machine must be confronted in a more persuasive manner.