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69. It's a tax designation

that applies to a home business of one or to a multinational conglomerate. It doesn't apply to individual donors like the Kochs, Mercers, or Soros. That home business might give $200, but that money is corporate. Meanwhile the Mercers spend hundreds of millions, even billions, to set up a string of Super Pacs to bankroll their nihilist agenda through Trump and other types, and you have no problem with that. Politicians enrich themselves to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from small donations from individuals, but you aren't concerned with that. Instead the focus is on the buzzword "corporate" because it fits so nicely on a bumper sticker.

You care about making the Democratic Party represent your concerns but somehow don't give a shit about the political system. If the country as a whole is rotten, who cares? Why bother reforming the system? Why bother learning about what laws do and don't permit and how politicians get around them? What do facts matter compared to simple rhetoric? Why should citizens, or politicians for that matter, who claim to have all the answers be expected to actually know facts? The goal is to spin a good sound bite, not actually change anything.

But alas, you long for the days when the Democratic Party wasn't "corporate." You know when that was? When it was the party of slaveholders. The good ole days. Is that what you long to return to? Because FDR got a larger portion of his campaign contributions from Wall Street than recent candidates. This mythical era of the Democratic Party as a pure representation of the people never existed. Liberty and opportunity for white men was always won at the direct costs of enslavement of Africans and the mass murder of Native Americans. That relationship was not incidental but integral. Ignorance of history isn't cute. Constructing a mythology that hearkens back to the days of Jim Crow or even slavery isn't cute either. Returning to the good old days means the exploitation, racism, lynchings, and denial of rights from those eras. That is who so many in the subaltern oppose efforts to recapture the values of good ole days.

We live in the United States of America. It is the political system that matters. You may derive some sense of superiority from your bumper sticker condemnations of the Democratic party, but you do nothing to address the problem of money in politics--a problem, it seems, you've even denied is a concern outside of "corporate" money.

The only thing achieved by this rhetorical whipping of the Democratic Party to the exclusion of the GOP and the political system as a whole is the increased political stranglehold of the GOP, not just because your argument gives them a pass but because it undermines support for the Democratic Party. That really shouldn't be so difficult to figure out.