They are naming the wrong villains, and in so doing making it less likely that the problems get solved, and less likely that Democrats will win. (And more likely that the corporate media will elevate them and their paradigm.)

The difference is that Klein and Thompson say this decreased capacity mostly follows from barriers the left ("organized interest groups" "environmenalists" etc) put in place - and not mostly hurdles, outsourcing, and other manifestations of coporate influence.

You can watch the video yourself, starting at the 6:09 mark here. Let me know if you can understand what this guy's even talking about! live.house.gov?date=2025-03...

Yeah.... so I just don't get it. And unfortunately I don't have time right now to watch his colleagues' speeches about corporate power, monopolies, fair trade, and organized labor.

And, I can't fathom a guess as to whom he's referring to here, he thinks “The last thing we need is a bunch of wimps looking for a win win every time. There are villians in this society- we need to take them on.”

Out of control corporate power has "hurt small businesses across main streets all over our districts. it has crushed workers. it has led to rising costs that we all live with.”

He went on and on about how "We know that outta control corporate power leads to higher costs. It leads to worse safety, It leads to lower quality and we see it play out across so much of our economy. It’s weakend our defense industrial base and thus it’s weakened our military."

Then he said some stuff like “The economy and what life costs people should never be an afterthought” and that economic patriotism means "fighting for a life people can afford and it is bringing corporate power to heel.”

He says he wants to “Fight for a life people can afford, bringing corporate power to heel, taking on the corruption that pervades this town.”

Then he claimed that: “We need a fighting spirit of economic populism - it is patriotic” and that “Democrats need to stop defending elites and the establishment.”

So it looks like he opened by discussing how big corporations have too much power over our economy: for instance, monopolies are “jacking up prices and killing small businesses every chance they can get.”