I don't know if I'm a devil or an angel around here right now.

[frazzled]

6. Have you ever gone canvassing door to door?

I have, in lower- and lower-middle class neighborhoods all over New Hampshire, and also in industrial-ravaged parts of Michigan. Almost always when you are canvassing, your script has you ask the voter what issue matters most to them in the current election. I almost never heard responses that touched directly on economic issues, much less on the rich. Here are three real-life examples of the kinds of thing I would hear in response to "what issue matters most to you?"

- "No politician can help me with my issues." And when asked what those issues were, the response was: "My son listens to rap music all day."

- "I'm not voting, it's not going to help me." When asked what help he was seeking: "My wife left me and she won't let me see my kids."

- "My daughter has breast cancer and I don't know what to do." (This was obviously more relates to economic issues, but in the form of health insurance.)

You'd be surprised how disengaged most people are from issues of the day: they are so (perhaps rightfully) focused on their personal problems that they just don't see the government, or any party or individual politician, offering any useful assistance. And in the first two cases above, they are right. I really felt for all these dispirited people. My job in these cases was to try to artfully pivot them to issues that my (Democratic) candidate could in fact address, such as education and school programs in the first case, or health insurance in the last.

But this is all moot with regard to your plea to address economic issues: the Democratic Party and its candidates talk endlessly about economic issues, as well as income inequality and all that. Most people are not listening. And it doesn't sound like you've listened much to them either.