GOD DAMN IT

[Dragonfli]

114. "are they even democrats?"

There has been much conjecture regarding that. On one level, all it takes to be a "Democrat" is to register as such, or in places where one does not register, simply claim to be - it relies completely on self proclamation. On the other hand, being a Democrat can be said to be a collection of shared political ideas regarding approach to governance, but this shared vision can change with time.

Based on the proclaimed beliefs of the majority of Democrats regarding fiscal values, especially as it concerns labor and the lower classes, such representatives are not Democrats, but rather Republicans but with 80% less insanity at least in the second definition.

Unfortunately as there is no alternative at this time for labor and the lower classes and the collective vision of Democratic office holders (not so much the voters) is currently changing, becoming more and more entrenched in a vision where capital and the profits of those that share their gains with those elected Democrats is all that guide their actions, meaning that both parties are selling us out and govern solely at the pleasure of a very small fraction of the country.

We have no party anymore, not in the sense that you are asking about, the question has become moot - if one wants representation, one must earn millions if not billions of dollars to be represented.

Unless we replace the elected Democrats with people that share the Democratic values of the constituancy all that will remain is the name and the self declaration of what is just another flavor of Republican.

It is all over but the shouting as they say, it will take a revolution at this point to gain representation for the people to counter the representation for the select few that carry most of the money, there are many kinds of revolution, lets hope first and foremost that it will be a peaceful one

More importantly lets hope there even is one, because too many of us are growing poorer by the day and as this progresses the level of poverty itself will become ever more Dickensian even as the number of impoverished becomes so vast that it will be the lot of nearly all of us that are not among the very select few with so much that are currently the only ones being represented.