Growing tension between rich and poor has become powerful force in modern-day politics

Each side has vastly different priorities.

The rich, who by definition are economically content, like to focus on issues such as climate change, the bathroom rights of transgendered people and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s yoga techniques. The non-rich, on the other hand, who tend to be economically anxious, have more basic concerns, i.e. will they be able to pay next month’s mortgage. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

May 30, 2016

OAKVILLE, ONT.—“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.' Although F. Scott Fitzgerald penned those words 90 years ago, they should act as a guide to political communicators today. After all, the difference between the “rich” and “non-rich” is not only g...

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