Beschrijving
For more than fifty years, working people in the United States have seen their wages stagnate, their jobs disappear, and their political influence collapse-while billionaires consolidate unprecedented wealth and power. Today, millions of voters feel politically homeless, alienated from both major parties and skeptical that either one is capable of delivering real change.
In The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own, labor educator and political strategist Les Leopold argues that this crisis is not a failure of working people-but a failure of the political system itself.
Grounded in original polling of voters in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the book reveals a striking truth: working people across the political spectrum are far more economically progressive than either party leadership acknowledges. They support bold policies like banning mass layoffs at profitable corporations, capping prescription drug prices, expanding health care, and guaranteeing the right to a living-wage job-while rejecting the culture-war distractions that dominate elite political discourse.
Leopold traces how both Democrats and Republicans became vehicles for corporate power, how gerrymandering and money in politics hollowed out democracy, and why efforts to \
