This will, by necessity, be a short Diary. Republicans have proven that they are much better than Democrats at synthesizing sound bite sized talking points with visceral emotional appeal (without regard to facts or truth). It has more-or-less been assumed that Democrats can't do the same thing because their arguments are more logical and shaded with nuance. I'm not sure that's true. So this is the first in what I hope will be a continuing series of Diaries wherein I will proposed as simple a sound bite as possible that hits home like a sledge hammer, while also being true, accurate and reality based. Ones that we'd all love for someone like Obama or Biden to use in a national debate. I'd encourage anyone interested to propose their own Democratic Sound Bites (with the conditions that they be short, emotionally appealing, and true).
Sound Bite #1 below the Fold
"It's very simple. If, for the last 30 years, the rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting poorer, then you should raise taxes on the rich and lower taxes on the poor."