2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is willing to sacrifice growth for the sake of redistribution. [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Or perhaps paraphrased from Rush Limbaugh.
That's the buzzword that the GOP has used for decades to "demonize" any effort to reign in the excess of supply-side, trickle down economics.
It's not a matter of "demonizing wealth." There are huge differences between reasonable wealth based on achievement, and the sort of massive robbery that has resulted in a situation where a majority of workers have seen wages plummet, jobs disappearing and consumers getting screwed so that a small people worth hundred of millions -- and BILLIONS -- can buy their 5th vacation mansions.
When you have extremely profitable corporations whose owners have net worth in the BILLIONS of dollars, who pay their workers so little that many have to go on food stamps -- yes, that is worth criticizing.