How come no politician ever runs for office to help the poor any more?

Every candidate these days talks about helping the Middle Class, and business, bringing business to create jobs (and of course the joke that is Cutting Taxes). What happened to politicians standing up for the 'little man'? No one even pretends to do so any more. As a member of the Middle Class (but on the lower end of that scale) I don't mind having a politician looking out for my interests.

But what happened to people who ran for office to help out the poor, the unrepresented? The people who ran for office with the goal to save the people from Big Business? At a time when both big political parties are in thrall to big money I understand it would be hard. But we still ostensibly live in a democracy, and while it does take some amount of money to get noticed I wonder where are the candidates of the poor, using the power of the New Media?

Because like it or not, with the reality being that our economic class structure looking more and more like a V and less like the old bell curve, there are more and more people on the lower end of the ladder. And with the dissolution of the old ways for them to gain political voice they are in danger of getting unrepresented. And while the Tea Partiers love to wave the old 'no taxation without representation' flag, it isn't the rich, and the corporations that are lacking representation, it's the people who work for a living that are losing their political voice.

I say that the time is coming soon, if things don't reverse course, when that large group of people will find their voice. And the people in power today have two options: make sure that when that voice is found that it has something good to say, or ignore those people and prepare for that voice to become very angry.

I am not preaching revolution, I think that the best, luckiest thing for this country has been it's ability to wake up at opportune moments and incorporate the right changes that keep us from needing that revolution. But when the leading 'thinkers' of one major political party are doing their best to unravel the very safety net that has kept us from that revolution you have to wonder if they really know what they are doing.