ReadyForSomeoneElse.org, for comment - draft "opening statement"

[whereisjustice]

31. fwiw, here's my edit, flog away

Hillary, and her fellow Third-Way Democrats have run our Party for more than 20 years. During that time, things have certainly worked out well for the wealthiest Americans – heck, they’ve never done better – but clearly things haven't gone so well for everyone else.

Whether you believe that Democrats or Republicans have been responsible for the rich getting richer and everyone else having to work harder to scrape by, we cannot escape the fact that Hillary and her fellow Third Wayers have led our Party during this terrible time. Not only has the Third Way been ineffective at stopping Republicans, we believe they have actively contributed to our hardship by focusing exclusively on the wealthiest Americans. It's no surprise that the rest of us are falling behind.

Instead of continuing the same ideas and policies that have failed us, we must return to ideas and policies proven to work, for everyone. These are "road ready" ideas and policies that have created stability and wealth for Americans in the past and which continue to work in other countries where they’re followed today.

The richest Americans don't need more help from us. For the rest of America, a new future is needed to turn things around. Hillary and her branch of the Democratic Party represent a failed past.

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Might be good to add some footnotes?

The latest data reinforce the larger story of America’s middle class household wealth stagnation over the past three decades. The Great Recession destroyed a significant amount of middle-income and lower-income families’ wealth, and the economic “recovery” has yet to be felt for them. Without any palpable increase in their wealth since 2010, middle- and lower-income families’ wealth levels in 2013 are comparable to where they were in the early 1990s.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/the-typical-household-now-worth-a-third-less.html?_r=0

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/17/wealth-gap-upper-middle-income/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html?abt=0002&abg=0


on edit - ok, maybe not so great. That'll teach me about top of my heading. But might stimulate some more ideas.