Reply #41: We need a populist politician [View All]

I don't even see the predominant issue today as real poverty.

It is what is happening to the quality of life and the available jobs for most Americans from middle class on down...while the top 1% increases their wealth and power exponentially.

When I go to Wal*Mart I often think to myself there is borderline povery here, but it has happened so gradually that many don't recognize it. We desperately need politicians that will fight to restore this middle class and they must understand their problems such as healthcare, need for multiple wage earners per family, high mortgages, unavailability of money for higher education, cost of day care, school, double digit property tax increases, etc.

The middle class and below are stuck in their economic class much more than they were 40 years ago.

We need a populist politician that is willing to wage war with the moneyed elite in order to gain back what most Americans have lost. I'd like to see Edwards work towards that end.