Democrat Lisa McCormick's economic doctrine can resurrect the American Dream

In an era where the chasm between the wealthy and the working class has never been wider, progressive Democrat Lisa McCormick is resurrecting a firebrand economic doctrine straight from the ashes of the Great Depression—one that threatens to upend the very foundations of America’s oligarchic elite. 

With the unflinching audacity of a modern-day Huey Long, McCormick is demanding nothing short of a revolution in wealth distribution, calling for a brutal reckoning with the forces of greed that have strangled this nation’s promise of equality.

Her weapon? A scorched-earth revival of Long’s infamous "Share Our Wealth" plan—a blueprint so radical that it would cap personal fortunes at $50 million, dismantle the sacred tax exemptions shielding the billionaire class, and force corporations to pay their fair share or face the consequences. 

McCormick’s crusade is about more than just economics; it is a direct challenge to the moral rot that Martin Luther King Jr. once called the "evil triplets"—racism, poverty, and militarism—which continue to fester in America like an untreated wound.

King’s words in "The Other America" still ring with haunting clarity: "There are literally two Americas… one beautiful, overflowing with opportunity, and the other, a grotesque nightmare of deprivation." 

Today, that divide is not merely racial—it is economic, a brutal caste system where the children of the poor are locked out of education, where a single medical emergency can bankrupt a family, where the dream of upward mobility has been crushed beneath the boots of corporate oligarchs and their political enablers. 

America's middle class has shrunk significantly as the gap between wage growth and the rising cost of living has led to more families feeling financially strained, struggling to afford basic necessities, and joining the ranks of the poor. 

McCormick’s vision is not just policy—it is war. War against the dynastic fortunes that have turned Washington into their private fiefdom. War against the myth that hard work alone can break the chains of generational poverty. War against the smug indifference of a ruling class that has long since abandoned the people they were elected to serve.

History warns us: those who dare to speak such truths are marked. 

King himself was transformed from civil rights icon to "the most dangerous Negro in America" in the eyes of the FBI when he turned his focus to economic justice. When he stood at Riverside Church and condemned the Vietnam War, when he united poor Blacks and Whites under the banner of the Poor People’s Campaign, the establishment turned on him with vicious fury.

Now, McCormick is walking that same dangerous path. She knows the cost. She knows the backlash. But like so many patriotic heroes in this nation's history, she refuses to accept that America must remain a nation of masters and serfs.

Critics who support the status quo will complain that McCormick's plan is "too radical." The question is whether America has the courage to face its own reflection—and decide, at last, which side of history it will stand on.