Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.
The election is just over a week away and there’s one poll that people aren’t talking enough about.
A new poll was released by one of the top pollsters in partnership with COSAL (Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws) and AAI (the American Antitrust Institute).
This poll shows that strong antitrust enforcement is wildly popular and that voters strongly support the idea that huge corporations should be checked by government regulators.
Now keep in mind, the voters that were polled are in battleground states where huge amounts of money from the tech industry and Wall Street are trying to influence the election in record breaking amounts of spending.
Some of the key findings are:
That voters understand what’s at stake and want action on antitrust enforcement
and litigation to counter behavior by corporate monopolies and economically powerful
corporations.
That voters strongly believe that monopolies and economically powerful corporations hurt
small businesses, families, customers, and the economy with their actions.
Voters think wealthy and big corporations not paying their fair share in taxes, engaging in
price-gouging, hoarding wealth, and squashing competition are major factors in the economic
hardship facing many Americans today.
If that’s where the voters are at, let’s look at the U.S. Senate races where candidates lead with an economic populist message.
Incumbents, Senator Klobuchar (who wrote a book called “Antitrust”) along with two populists Senator Tester and Senator Sherrod Brown are out performing the top of the ticket by 5.5 points, 12 points and 10 points in their states respectively.
And you look at challengers in Missouri, North Dakota and Nebraska who lead with economic populism who are polling above the top of the ticket as well.
There’s no doubt that we need more Democrats leading with an inclusive, economic populist message. Just like what Sherrod Brown said on Pod Save America:
YOU’RE PROBABLY (ALSO) GETTING SCREWED BY:
PBMs
Hollywood
Trump Tax Cuts
Food Consolidation
IV Monopolies
Wall Street Housing
Some Good News
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Standing Tall for All,
J.D. Scholten
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