If anyone thinks the Democratic Party is not owned by money interests, ask yourself this:

[Chasstev365]

Why is it that the democratic establishment works so dam hard to get Bernie Sanders out of the race, yet these same people often cave into Republicans or fail to defend the party ideals?

[bahrbearian]

5. Wow, I like that quote.

[Ferd Berfel]

14. yeah, that is a good quote

and sums up capitalists, wall street, and others quite nicely

[Thinkingabout]

2. Since Sanders has been shown to be influenced by money interest for twenty five

Years he has been in congress and an independent says it is not limited to the Democratic Party.

[Chasstev365]

7. Are you equating Bernie Sanders with the rest of the Democratic Party, including the Clintons?

Yeah: keep telling yourself that!

[Thinkingabout]

8. Actually no, quiet the opposite, can you point to a time Hillary can be shown to have been

Influenced by the money? Sanders himself has not produced where this has happened. In the case of Sanders, the NEW donatedv $18,000 to defeat his opponent when he ran for congress and he rewarded them with five votes against the Brady Bill.

[Doctor_J]

9. OMG. Have you completely missed the scads of news about Clinton foundation donors

getting state department favors? Jesus Christ, how do you people manage to keep reality out of your lives altogether?

[Thinkingabout]

10. Where is the connection, not the scads of news of which is not based on facts. Good RW

talking points, lots of stories which have been proven to be untrue. Sanders did not have an occasion where there was influence. It just may be because he has been influenced by a gun lobby like NRA he thinks others do the same, poor analogy.

[Tavarious Jackson]

11. ????

[HereSince1628]

3. That depends heavily upon the meaning of "party ideals"

and the meaning of compromise.

Theoretically, and in my lightweight opinion the arena of contemporary 'pragmatic politics', it's quite possible to define party ideals in such a way as to completely take the sting of compromising said ideals out of the equation.

Party ideals aren't a Constitution, they are rather more like hand of cards dealt to politicians, examined, traded for new cards, and then played. But the card game itself isn't important. Being invited to the table, to be an associate of other big players -THAT- is what is important.

US politics is no longer a program of one for all and all for one, although suckers are played with such phrases.

It's a career path that engages making contacts and building celebrity. At the end of a political career, or within corrupt political deployments, those contacts and the celebrity are very lucrative. Very lucrative.

[Scuba]

4. "If ...

"If the Democratic Party would fight as hard for the Working Class as the Republican Party fights for the Ruling Class, the Republicans would be a powerless minority party within a few election cycles.

The Democratic Party knows this, the Republican Party knows this, the Ruling Class knows this- and they've been astonishingly successful at making sure the Working Class never learns this.

The status quo was rolling along just fine, until Bernie Sanders came along and mucked it up with his crazy ideas about democracy, equality and justice." ~ Anonymous

[Ferd Berfel]

16. In other words

[bigwillq]

6. Both parties are owend by money interests, and both parties are pretty awful

The two-party system ruined America.

Sure, DEMs are better than GOP, but neither party works for the people. They only work for the special interests.