Taking The Fight To Billionaires And Big Corporations. Steve Williamson and Karen McClelland welcome Mitzi Epstein, Arizona State Senator, computer analyst and education activist.
Asked to explain the results of the 2024 election, Epstein notes that the Arizona House and Senate were both two seats away from a Democratic majority. Unfortunately, they are now three seats away.
She says, “I was particularly saddened when I would hear things like, well, the Democrats don’t care about working people anymore. And I thought that’s just so not true. Every single day at the legislature, every one of us is working on some project or another that will directly help people who work. But we need to do a better job of getting our message out. And we need to do a better job of helping people recognize what the real problems are.
“The real power that we’re facing at this point is the power of billionaires and big corporations. [Their] profits have increased so much more than inflation has increased that we can see…we can measure…economists can measure that inflation has in large part been caused by the greed of corporations and they are profiting mightily. And then from them our billionaires are becoming super billionaires…Elon Musk over four hundred billion dollars.”