Dear Hillary,
We understand politics and governing is not easy, to say the least.
Bill and Barack tried as best they could, but more or less, 2010 got in the way of Obama, just like 1994 got in the way of Bill. In the 1990s, we think an economic agenda focused more on the working-middle classes was given serious thought, but for whatever reason it was not carried out as many had hoped, including Bill's long-time friend and first term Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.
For 2016, we want a 1990s economy do over. But instead of a bubble in stock prices and capital gains ... we want a bubble in wages and benefits for the the working-middle classes. We want to ride that broad-based, slow-growing bubble - not the fast-paced frantic bubbles leading to castles in the sky for the 1%
We want Robert Reich's ideas to be implemented this time around, Mrs. Clinton.
We don't want the capital gains and executive pay Bubble Blowers to have your ear like they did Bill's in the 1990s.
We will show up in 2018 and not let another 1994 or 2010 happen again ... we have a wind at our back that wasn't there before - demographics are shifting to our sails and as long as we can thwart Voter ID and other suppression tactics, we will turn out to support an economic agenda that is rooted in policy that is meant to propel the working-middle class and lift us all.
But we insist that Robert Reich's message not only be heard and used to win elections and popular support - we also want the PLATFORM from which that message is built and it's policy planks to be enacted.
Robert Reich has spent a lifetime building a common sense PLATFORM for the working middle-classes ... we want Dems to stand on that platform proudly and confidently and work for their natural constituency again by enacting that platform.
We want a wave of prosperity generated by a vibrant and growing working-middle class to be the rising tide that lifts all boats ... not a promise of riches on a bubble ride to castles in the sky - we have been there, we have done that, and don't want it again.