The US public and for that matter, populism, lies center-right (as the public has even evaulated itself, as revealed, for example, in a Pew poll). What's happening, though, is that the public has pretty much come to terms with (in fact, has grown up largely under) the US version of the modern-era welfare state initiated by FDR, and surviving an effective referendum in 1964. What the public has largely done has been to choose the GOP as the lesser of two evils when the Dems, who are more liberal than the GOP is, have gone too far, as they have in particular at times since the 1960s.

You may now return to other people's imagination, which some would like to substitute for reality on this, as on other, issues.

For the United States, jobs are not only being automated but offshored.

And those that cannot be automated or offshored are being taken by the newly created disposable labor force that is being imported from Mexico & Central-America, undocumented workers AKA illegal aliens.

This problem is only exacerbated in today's globalized and high tech society. In spite of attempts to paint it differently we are no longer in a situation where a new technology is simply displacing old technologies and changing the jobs that are available. We have technologies whose sole purpose is to displace workers. Robots build cars and will only do more jobs in manufacturing. Robots can do warehouse work. Retailers are putting self serve check-out equipment in place. McDonald's is working on order placing kiosks and methods to automate the kitchen work to the point where in their ideal situation only two workers are needed in the kitchen. For the United States, jobs are not only being automated but offshored.

Given these factors there are no tax cuts for the upper income classes that are going to provide jobs and really stimulate our economy.