Responding to
the depressing news
that the administration has succumbed to elite pressure to “tone down”
the rhetoric about wealth inequality, Damon Silvers, special counsel for
the AFL-CIO, points out the uncomfortable truth:
[T]he
president faces a choice of rhetoric on Tuesday night—but that choice
is not just about political gamesmanship. It will have serious policy
implications. But there is also an issue of simple credibility. The
American people are watching, and they are furious about inequality.
Large majorities in poll after poll want a more progressive tax system,
accountability for bankers, less power in public life for corporations
and the rich and, most of all, higher wages.
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