Suspend your concerns about Hartmann for a moment and read this....

[Rural_Progressive]

92. I so much love people on both sides of the political aisle who make statements like

"The 40-years-Democrats-corrupt-Wall Street-corporatists-who-ignore-the-working-class thing is a myth, obviously." with absolutely nothing to back them up.

Here's the truth friend, the Democratic Party bellies up to the corporate donation trough using the excuse that without those funds they can't get elected. Even after they promise not to take those funds some of them figure out ways to get around their promise.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/democrats-corporate-pac-money/

It's tough to get tough on the very entities that are destroying the middle class if you're taking their money. Just iike it's tough to get tough on the corporations that are destroying our health by producing "food" that isn't good for us when you're taking their money.

https://www.fooddive.com/news/where-they-stand-political-donations-from-10-of-the-largest-food-and-bever/585516/

Since I'm a recently retired farmer committed to sustainable agriculture, I saved this for last.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/11/democrat-tom-vilsack-usda-secretary-farms/ (you'll need to sign up, it's free, to read the article) but here's the headline)

Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Democratic Party: Our planet and rural communities cannot afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism.

I'm not in the business of doing other people's research so I've just provided a few examples to get you started. Next time you feel like making a blanket statement you might want to have something to back it up.

The Democratic Part can and must do better but that will only happen if we hold their feet to the fire and force them to change the way they are doing the people's work.