re: #85 jvic

The kind of worker who can sustain a competitive modern prosperous economy is likely to require, either overtly or de facto, a degree of political rights.

That’s nice. However, as the Gilded Age showed us, and our current cycle is repeating, a society can have great prosperity without it being equitably distributed, thus leaving out wide sections of society from empowerment and enfranchisement.

All you’re really doing is saying “A rising tide lifts all boats, even civil rights, rising tides are great things”, and I’m saying “A rising tide doesn’t even raise all boats”. When that tide is a prospering economy.

If what you mean is a president who can help raise worker’s wages and reduce the obscene disparity in pay between CEOs and workers in this country, someone who can enact taxation and government spending to correct the economically disastrous stratification of wealth that we’re seeing, then sure, I agree— yet somehow I doubt you meant that.