Reply #76: I DO understand what you're saying [View All]

[doodadem]

but to me, it sounds like the same premise that Democrats should move "more to the middle". The problem with that idea, is that the more Dems more right, the more Repugs move further right.
It's time to take a stand, and remember that we are supposed to be the Party of the People.
What you are proposing sounds like Reagan's "trickle down economics" to me: give all the breaks to the guys at the top, and they will create jobs, i.e., more wealth, for the little guys at the bottom. Well, that theory failed miserably. The guys at the top just took the money and ran.
Our argument needs to be framed in those terms. God knows we have plenty of ammunition these days, with all the corporate scandals, and CEO's being convicted/jailed.
There was a time when corporate America took care of their workers. You could go to work for a company, and count on retiring from there 40 years later, with a nice little pension. Those days died with the advent of bottom line mentality--must show increasing profits, if we have to lie, cheat, steal, and rape our employees to do it.