The cancer infecting the political Left

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(12-02-2020, 06:30 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(12-02-2020, 01:17 AM)Einzige Wrote: Neither party has ever "represented" the working class. Stop thinking in terms of representation altogether and think in terms of real expressions of power by the class.

Not true of the Democrats from FDR through LBJ.  Through the unravelling, sorta true.  Pretty true of the Marxists and Communists.

The New Deal Democratic Party was a capitalist Party that represented the interests of a coterie of subsidy-heavy agricultural interests, construction companies and the like - and the Southern elite. Any 'pro-worker' policies they adopted were molded by Capital (e.g. having to work until 65 to collect social security).