Thomas Frank calls out blind partisanship by Dems

[octoberlib]

46. I would imagine the vast majority of the electorate isn't aware that the number one

reason Democracies fail is high levels of income inequality and that no Democracy in the history of the world has survived a huge income gap. Income equality is such a reliable indicator of whether a Democracy survives or not that political scientists developed the Gini Coefficient to measure it. High levels of income inequality result in uprisings and revolutions. And those will happen here too, eventually. I don't have confidence that this will ever be fixed in Washington. I know that Obama has read and/or talked to Nick Hanauer, who's been sounding the alarm about all this and has even used Hanauer's term 'middle-out economics'. But the politicians won't act until the polls tell them they need to act.


If Democrats were better at messaging we might be able to get the public concerned about this. But our messaging has always been terrible going back to the beginnings of the party itself.