WOW! This is how Democrats could communicate! One of the best ads I've ever seen by the England and Wales Green Party!

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45. Kamala Harris recently said just about the same thing as the video in a little different way.

There's a problem and burying the problem won't make it go away.

From a recent Harris speech.

If we look around today, it's clear that so much of the economic, political, and civic power has increasingly been concentrated among those at the top. Concentrated in the hands of an entrenched elite. Take for example our economy. It is clear that deliberate policy decisions made over decades resulted in a drift away from the needs of working people. Trade deals that hollowed out communities as jobs got outsourced and offshored. Deregulation of a financial system that let big banks prey on everyday people. The cost of living steadily rising while wages did not keep up, making child care, health care, and rent more unaffordable and putting the dream of home ownership further out of reach for so many.

These decisions and more, I believe, contributed to how we got here today. And let's be honest, many of these policies were supported by leaders from both parties. Now, of course, Democrats, we never bought into trickle down. That was Ronald Reagan's doing. But plenty of Democrats did buy into the flawed assumptions, many of those flawed assumptions behind it. for example, that if we trusted the wisdom of the market, working people would eventually get taken care of. The assumption that growth at the top would take care of everybody else. That brutal cuts to social programs for the sake of reducing the deficit was the best path to economic growth. But those assumptions were proven wrong. And even though working people did everything right, worked from the day through the night, we saw that the economic system essentially stopped delivering for them.

And over time, the American dream for many has all but turned into an American myth. As power consolidated in economic systems, we saw the same same kind of trend in our political system, a broken campaign finance system which disproportionately allowed big money to dictate the political agenda and a policymaking process increasingly influenced more by Washington insiders than everyday working people. So, it's no surprise in the midst of all this, our country has experienced an erosion of civic life, growing distrust in government and each other, increasing economic inequality, and a polarized nation.