Study: American public has ‘virtually no influence’ over politics in face of wealthy interest groups

[dharmamarx]

23. The problem is organization....

The American working class is unfortunately organized through the Democratic Party. (This website itself reflects that problem.) We define our problems based on what the Democrats talk about, and we forget about issues they ignore. We hope that simply electing a new Democrat will fix those problems, and it never really does. We haven't recognized that this is not the 1950s-1970s, and that the Democratic Party no longer cares about the working class because the working class is no longer organized and threatening the establishment. The Soviet Union, whatever you think of it, was tremendously successful at shaming the Western capitalist countries into adopting New Deal-style welfare states. No USSR, no Socialist Party of America, no militant labor unions: No progressive politics. The solution isn't really that we need to vote for non-Democrats, but rather that we need to get organized independently of the Democrats, define our own agenda, and begin to take over the electoral system with candidates pledged to our agenda.