So I hear the Democratic Party "panders" to Wall Street!

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29. I'll tell you exactly what it means

To the GOP, there are Two Americas - Main Street America and Wall Street America.

Main Street America is lined with mom & pop businesses. They are lovingly operated little places where the staff all know your name when you walk in, they donate money to the local Little League and the Fourth of July Fireworks Display, they'd never lay a worker off, and all the money they make recirculates in the local economy. Main Street is Republicanism personified.

Wall Street America is big banks and big businesses. They're evil to their customers, to their workers, to the local economy. They can't wait to foreclose on Real Americans' Precious Homes and throw them out in the street just for fun - well, their fun anyway. They love to walk into a small town and throw everyone out of work just for the lulz. This is Wall Street:



(I was going to illustrate Main Street but the only suitable cartoon character I could think of was Prince Valiant - and most of y'all don't get that strip in your Sunday papers. Wall Street doesn't have that problem.)

And since the GOP already owns Main Street, the obvious conclusion is Wall Street's ours.

Of course, that's 100 percent pure bullshit. Come on, look at Trump's Cabinet. President Chuggo seems to have bought a copy of "Who's Who On Wall Street" and confirmed everyone in it to his administration.

The Secretary of State was CEO of the fourth largest company in America.
His Treasury Secretary was a bank CEO.
His Commerce Secretary is a corporate raider.
His Education Secretary is part of the top level of the Amway food chain.
His Small Business Administration administrator ran the biggest pro wrestling league in America.

And everyone else that works for him is either a politician who's too far to the right to join the John Birch Society, or he's a general.

The actual Wall Street contributes very heavily to the GOP. Many of them contribute nothing to the Democrats. A CEO or banker who donates largely, or exclusively, to the Democratic Party is a rare bird indeed.

Wall Street is a convenient albatross for the Republcans to hang around the Democratic Party's neck. One only has to be able to ignore the trail of albatross carcasses that rotted off the GOP's neck.