This is how Biden shows whose side he's on

Let me begin today’s column with a question: Why isn’t Joe Biden calling out Starbucks--along with its billionaire founder and recent CEO Howard Schultz, for its fierce union-busting campaign?

- Robert Reich

(Also, for that matter, Reed Hastings’ Netflix for its refusal to treat its writers better, fueling the writers’ strike? And, very soon, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, for its refusal to pay truckers more, fueling the UPS strike? And Elon Musk for firing three-quarters of Twitter’s workers?)

Sometimes, there’s no better way for a president to communicate what they represent than to say whom they’re opposed to and why. Exhibit A is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech on Oct. 31, 1936, in Madison Square Garden while running for a second term:

“In 1932 ….we had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”