If anything, it takes courage of a sort to urge tax breaks for the top 1 percent or 2 percent of voters at a time when ordinary people can't pay drug and medical bills. It takes courage to urge that multimillionaires be spared paying a nickel in estate taxes while minimum wage workers pay payroll taxes. If Republicans persist in this sort of political courage, voters will reciprocate by electing more Democrats. I'm not sure I buy the premise. The private sector is not competent to provide such social goods as education and health care.
Full employment is the working person's best friend.
Big money needs to be kept in its place or it will swamp democracy. The fairest way to finance government is via a progressive tax system. We want industry to succeed but recognize that its antisocial tendencies must be tamed via regulation in the public interest. Democracy itself needs to be deepened and broadened. Most of these turn out to be either variations on Republican ideas or mere gimmicks.