“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail, 1963
This argument is one that the left fails to make perennially. That improving the conditions of one necessarily improves the conditions of all and that policy that focuses on the most vulnerable helps everyone more still.
The left will win Wall Street (and thus elections) when they finally show that social programs provide mitigation allowing Wall Street to minimize losses and a multiplier to increase their earnings.
I feel like most folks you'd be talking about when it comes to whomever is "Wall Street" just care about next quarter ... and the next, and whatever tax advantages they can mange in the meantime.
As a group they're not interested in long term outcomes at least as far as government policy goes.
I think they should, but I don't think it motivates them.
Agreed. The left should learn from the Trump campaign, who put a positive, constructive spin on a fundamentally anti-establishment platform. Trump’s MAGA vs. Bernie’s angry finger-pointing
Pretty apt for our global society, too.