Mr. President, joining the picket line is a good start

Kudos for joining the UAW picket line tomorrow. You’re the first president to ever join a picket line.

- Robert Reich

But, please, don’t stop there.

Go on to criticize the CEOs of America’s big corporations who are now raking in more than 350 times what the average American worker is earning (in the 1950s, they took in 20 times). Blast corporations that are monopolizing their industries.

Condemn firms that are using their profits to buy back shares of stock, polluting the planet with carbon emissions and polluting our democracy with big money.

You won’t be the first Democratic president to do this.

On the eve of the 1936 election, President Franklin D. Roosevelt warned America that business and financial monopolies and war profiteers considered the U.S. government

“…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.”

America is again in a populist age, when a vast army of Americans have been shafted by big corporations, Wall Street, and the monied interests.

The biggest change over the last three decades — the change lurking behind the insecurities and resentments of the working middle class — has nothing to do with identity politics, “woke”ism, immigration, critical race theory, transgender kids, or any other current Republican bogeymen.

It has directly to do with a huge upward shift in the distribution of income and wealth.