That's exactly what the left needs to do, but I don't see it happening when a large portion of the typical politician's work schedule is calling the people responsible for that heist and asking for money. That conflict of interest is fundamental problem[1].

People want a platform that actually is liberal, but liberal politicians moved further to the right in an attempt to work with people that were never going to compromise. Instead of seeing even an acknowledgement of the real economic problems that many people struggle to deal with, the left instead showed the were more interested in taking corporate money.

> attacking the deliberate fiscal and taxation policies that caused them

That's hard to do in an environment of regulatory capture and large donations from the people that would be regulated.

[1] yes, I wanted to vote for Lessig