Robert Reich: “Why is Washington determined to make the rich richer and to turn its back on the middle class?”

But those same regulations may be extraordinarily important to the average working person in America, because they protect that average working person.

We have the power. We don't have to accept corporate monopolies. We don't have to live with corporate money corrupting our politics.

When they talk of ‘personal liberties and free markets’ they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.

We don't have to accept more tax cuts for billionaires. We don't have to pay more of our hard-earned cash to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or the other billionaire oligarchs.