Hillary Clinton doesn't need the 200 advisors she's been meeting with, just one, Atrios:
Help people. Give them free money. Make it simple. Don't make them spend hours and days on the phone and doing paperwork. Be like Apple in the supposed good old days when "it just worked" (it certainly doesn't now). Give people economic security. Don't make them devote their lives to "shopping" for the best deal. You really don't need 200 policy advisers. Just one. Me.
With advice from more than 200 policy experts, Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to answer what has emerged as a central question of her early presidential campaign strategy: how to address the anger about income inequality without overly vilifying the wealthy.
Don't vilify the wealthy, just make them pay some taxes for the state apparatus which devotes itself to preserving their wealth.
Good advice. Do you think she'd have any idea how to carry it out, or any wish to?
In fact, do you think anyone seriously in the running for the presidency in 2016, in either party, would have the ability or the wish to run on and then carry out such an obviously wildly popular agenda?
I'm sure Bernie Sanders would have the wish to, but not the institutional and party apparatus behind him that would allow him to carry it out.