Cos that would have been really fun during a meeting with my drivers . <| sep |> First , it isn ' t supposed to . Paid parental leave is supposed to Omigod look at mai pedantry Second , there isn ' t a magic bullet for low wage growth . Education , marginal tax rates , and minimum wage can all play a part , but stuff like the growth of the service sector and assortative mating and automation generally mean that inequality is here to stayAnd here ' s why dems keep losing folks . Well we have to appeal to upper class feminists because obviously they ' d vote republican otherwise amirite ? So obviously we can ' t push class issues because . reasons ! If anybody has a great idea about solving it , I ' m all ears . But don ' t suggest that Democrats could have just signed some bill and everything would have been all right . Labor organization . Let me say that again . Labor . Organization . Unions . Ya know , that thing the DNC has done it ' s damndest to push out of the national conversation . The Contract with America happened , and most Americans liked the idea of not paying more in taxes . And how ' s that working out for you ? How is the Democratic party supposed to win without Latino ' s and African Americans as a big part of that victory ? If Criminal Justice reform or Immigration reform take a back seat to a populist message , then major and growing parts of the Obama coalition might stay at home . We need to integrate each of these ideas into a cohesive message with a messenger that excites the base . Oh gee how on earth would pulling black and Latino Americans out of poverty possibly lower the crime rate ? ? And get the fuck out of here pretending the democrats have been pushing any sort of meaningful criminal justice reform . They were the ones who pushed for higher incarceration rates in the 90 ' s retard . Here ' s the reality , the democratic party isn ' t the party the working class anymore . And it ' s not even the party of minorities . It ' s the party of Martha ' s Vinyard and hip loft apartments in gentrified neighborhoods . Of affluent liberals who read Harper ' s and The Nation and golly just totally relate with the struggles of the downtrodden so gosh darn much that they donate to unicef and even went to proPalestinian rallies when they were studying at Columbia ! The fact that you think my suggested economic policies are as limited and shallow as higher minimum wage and marginal tax rates is very telling . Because that ' s the deepest mainstream liberals are capaable of thinking about class conflict . The democrats have spent nearly 30 years parading token minorities around to distract from their overwhelmingly procorporate policies . And people are finally wising up to the con . Time for something new