Why can't Democrats just say it:

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28. The Democratic Party has historically been the larger of two parties

precisely because the power center has been pro corporate even as the periphery has nearly always defended the constitution and the amendments to it. As much as we'd love to return to January 1933-January 1937, the first four years of FDRs presidency were an aberration, forcing sweeping changes where they were most needed because the country was in economic crisis and quite frankly facing revolution.

That's one reason the party won't go there, they have almost as much of a stake in keeping the game going as the radical plutocrats, tech bros, and crypto dudes do. They do, however, see the next crisis on the horizon and will try to take steps to prevent the worst of it. That's why I'm a registered Democrat, even though Social Democrat* is closer to the truth.

Don't expect radical change from the Democatic Party until and unless the country experiences another massive economic crash. Changes will be so incremental as to be invisible until then. However, the Republicans have always met crisis with total paralysis, their dogma blinding them to what the crisis actually consists of, let alone allowing them to deal with it effectively. That's the other reaon I'm a registered Democrat.


*Democratic Socialism: Moves toward decentralized and democratically controlled ownership of all facets of the economy with the eventual goal of abolishing capitalism altogether. It sounds pretty good but is open to real abuse and can devolve faster than cyclical capitalism does, along with stifling innovation and lessening productivity. See: Rssia, although this wasn't their only problem, the main one being that the Boilsheviks hated democracy.

Social Democrats: A mixed system of socialism and capitalism is created, with things moving back and forth between the two paradigms as a socialist entity stagnates or a capitalist entity becomes predatory. This blunts the destructiveness of capitalism while allowing it to exist since it's capable of quicker response to changing human needs.

I can deal with messy. Purity is for plaster saints.