[defrost]

Neither of the two major parties in US politics supports the poor.

Elsewhere there are broader choices in national politics.

eg: the current Prime Minister of Australia grew up with a single mother on a disability pension in council housing. His actions and politics are at least informed by real life experience as one of "the poor".

[cassianoleal]

Brazil’s President faced famine as a child, lost a pinky in a factory accident and is a life-long union leader.