Gilad Edelman in “The Democrats Confront Monopoly,” Washington Monthly, Nov/Dec 2017:
“A slew of Washington Monthly articles had insisted that anti-monopoly policy would be good electoral politics, but there was never any evidence. That changed in April with a poll conducted by Hart Research Associates. The poll presented voters with a battery of questions and scenarios to probe their feelings on corporate consolidation.
“The poll found that voters were much more worried about how the very rich use their power to benefit themselves than about excessive government regulation. Eighty-six percent agreed with the statement ‘Our economy is increasingly dominated by a small number of very large corporations,’ and nearly 60 percent, including Rust Belt voters, said they were ‘extremely concerned’ that ‘Corporate monopolies control too much of our economy and our political system.’”
Gilad Edelman’s article contains a discussion of the disconnect between the Democrats’ message that workers are empowered and workers’ perception that they have no power and no control. The article also discusses the perception by workers that that the Democratic party isn’t listening to them.
