Let’s be clear: the political establishment is terrified. They see the polls. They feel the anger.

They know that people are hungry for an economic message that actually speaks to their reality—not the curated fantasy of the donor class.

So now, after decades of selling out our industrial base, shredding our safety net, and worshipping at the altar of the “free market,” the neoliberal geniuses who broke our economy have suddenly rediscovered it. “It’s the economy, stupid!” they chirp, as if they’ve just had a revolutionary thought.

Their big idea? The “Abundance Agenda.”

Don’t be fooled by the friendly name. This isn’t about abundance for you. This is a carefully crafted narrative, funded and promoted by the very billionaires who profit from our scarcity.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson identify red tape as the villain in the housing crisis. They’re not entirely wrong, but they are dangerously incomplete because they ignore the influence of institutional investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. These giant institutional investors contribute to the crisis and exacerbate affordability issues as much as the long-term shortage of housing supply and restrictive building policies.

Institutional investors like BlackRock are predators, not the cause. They are feasting on a housing crisis created by decades of restrictive zoning that choked supply. When banks were bailed out and lending tightened after 2008, these cash-rich giants swooped in to buy up what working families could no longer afford. They didn't create the shortage—they're just profiting from our misery.

They are the vultures circling a disaster created by bad zoning and worse policies that bailed out banks and locked out working families. They profit from the scarcity that crushes the rest of us.

Why do you think the oligarchs are so quick to fund this “abundance” conversation? Because it’s a safe distraction. It lets them talk about the economy without ever mentioning the real problem: them.

They love to debate zoning boards and permitting processes because it doesn’t cost them a dime. It’s the perfect smokescreen. They’ll happily let you build a few more apartment units if it means you stop asking why they pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries. They’ll chat all day about “innovation” and “deregulation” to avoid a conversation about redistribution and justice.

Taxes aren’t tyranny; they are the price of civilization. And those who hoard unimaginable wealth while contributing less than a schoolteacher or a firefighter aren’t job creators. They are civilization’s free-loaders, and their greed is a threat to our republic.

I have a different agenda. It’s not complicated. It’s called the Share Our Wealth agenda, and it’s built on one simple, revolutionary principle: no one deserves a billion dollars while another person starves.

My platform is not a list of polite suggestions. It is a declaration of economic independence from the billionaire class:

A $50 Million Cap on Personal Wealth: You can live like a king on $50 million. Beyond that, it’s hoarding. We will tax it at 100% and reinvest it in the people who actually create the value: workers.

A 90% Top Tax Rate: We will return to the sane, successful tax policy that built the American middle class, not the failed trickle-down experiment that destroyed it.

Medicare for All & Tuition-Free College: Funded by seizing the wealth that has been stolen from workers over the last 40 years. Wages have stagnated while productivity soared. That $88 trillion gap belongs to the American people.

A $20 Minimum Wage: If you work full-time in the richest country in history, you should not live in poverty.

This isn’t radical. It’s common sense. It’s morality.

Look at the record of the establishment we’re up against. Since Cory Booker went to the Senate, what have we gotten? Thoughts and prayers as rights were stripped away and the planet burned. He missed 413 votes while taking nearly a million dollars from the pro-Israel lobby. He is a symptom of a corrupted system.

The “Abundance Agenda” is a philosophy for a comfortable decline. It asks for crumbs.

Our agenda is a blueprint for a revolution. We are not asking for a seat at the table. We are building a new table, and we are not leaving until every American has a place at it.

The choice is no longer between left and right. It is between oligarchy and democracy. Between greed and justice.

We choose justice. Join us at https://www.democratsfor.us and fight for it.