The question that is constantly being asked, particularly on the talking heads on television, is "what do the Democrats have to do to regain political power?" What does it take?
What it takes is something very, very simple. Donald Trump showed this during the Republican primary and during the election. When Trump came out and called banksters killers and said they're robbing you blind. He said he was going to do away with carried interest.
Of course he didn't. He didn't do anything about the banksters, in fact wants to further deregulate the banksters. But he talked about it, he said the things that got him elected.
Now, the difference is, Democrats actually believe this stuff and actually will legislate based on this.
So, you want to know, Democrats, what to do to get elected, to get and hold power? Listen to the guy who was elected president of the United States four times - the only person in history to be elected president of the United States four times in a row - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
One week before the election of 1936 when he was running for re-election, FDR
said this about how he took on the rich:
"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."
And then Franklin Roosevelt talks about what he did about this:
