If you win an election by instituting the opponent's platform, what's the point?
The Point (such as it is): You've won the election and you don't have to scramble for a job as talking head on cable TV show.
Power for the sake of power, just like I said.
I think you assume too much: that this is a winning election issue. I just think you are wrong on this issue. The democrats have been trying to find a populist class warfare issue to run on because they follow the Karl Marx blueprint, but that blueprint has not worked since Reagan. Clinton won because of Perot and because Bush I was a liberal republican that did not believe in Reagan principals. The democrats have not won on populism in many years, and they won't do it now. We are in good shape economically and everyone knows it, including the voters. The papers have been trying to paint a different picture, but nobody is buying it.
What are you more worried about, a politician losing his job or ruining the economy? My guess is that you have more compassion for the politician.