Sadly, the Democratic Party Continues to Betray the American Working Classes.
Siem Reap, Cambodia, June 13th, 2024.
Salaroche

I’m not a Democrat. I cannot concur with that party’s usual center-right, hypocritical, lukewarm policies. I vote Democrat for the traditional lack of a better choice we have in America’s two-party system. I don’t totally go for the well-intentioned politics of Bernie Sanders either, the Independent Senator from Vermont, although I appreciate some of the pro-worker policies he advocates.

AOC is a young, smart, very-talented Congresswoman who deserves the attention of every American who believes that, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, all men and women are created equal and that, therefore, all Americans deserve to enjoy the same rights under the law.

But those two individuals, as well-known, well-intentioned, and relatively influential as they may be, don’t have any determining say in the politics of the Democratic Party. As it stands today, the Democratic Party is a self-feeding political beast interested only in acquiring power and, given the highly-biased, private-contribution-dependent, campaign-finance system we have in America, either the Democrats cater to the wishes of the American moneyed classes or they’re doomed.

Guys like Barack Obama are extraordinary exceptions to that sort of rule, as his electoral campaign managed to garner enough financial resources directly from the people to get elected twice even as, in the end, he had no choice but to toe the moderate, center-right, conservative line.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, is no exception to anything. Joe Biden is a product of the American political system with an added touch of centrist tendencies. There is nothing particularly remarkable about him. Probably like millions of other Americans, I voted for Biden in 2020 and will do it again in 2024 because there is NO way in a million years that I could vote for that corrupt, amoral, anti-American leader of the GOP.

No doubt the Republican Party has lost its way, but the Democratic Party lost it long before the Republicans did. Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College vote in 2016 because she didn’t have much to offer to all those American workers who had lost their jobs because of the Democratic Party’s Neo-Liberal policies, which were enacted by her husband, President Bill Clinton, a little over a decade earlier. That’s why those millions of workers voted for Trump.

The Democratic Party is supposed to watch over the interests and the wellbeing of the American Workers and over those of the American middle and lower classes too, but it doesn’t. The Democratic Party is supposed to be a political party of the left, but it is only a moderate center-right political institution. In order to thrive, a stable political environment needs a certain equilibrium between leftist and rightist forces. When one of those poles is missing, weak, or wanting, the electorate necessarily gravitates toward the opposite extreme, particularly when misguided in that direction by able agitators, as it is the case in America today.

In the absence of a true-left political institution, right-wing demagogues will keep gaining the upper hand, meaning that, as long as we don’t have a real left-wing, pro-workers, pro-middle and lower classes political party in America, we will always be at the mercy of Fascist tendencies. No wonder the United States is today in such sociopolitical mess.

Salaroche