Reply #254: That would be a somewhat plausible argument if lobbyists representing wealthy

[Zorra]

private interests did not buy favors from politicians.

But it is a fact that they do.

This in turn, leads many politicians to legislate against the interests of their constituents.

Also,

The "Democratic Party Platform" was arbitrarily altered "without the consent of the governed". Al Fromm and his pals decided that it would be convenient for wealthy private interests to be represented by the Democratic Party (the DLC). The Democratic Party was historically the party of unions and working people up to this point. After being co-opted by the DLC, protecting the rights of working people became secondary to protecting the rights of wealthy private/corporate interests.

The republican party is historically the party that represents wealthy private interests.

So what the DLC did was effectively ambiguate the Democratic Party Platform, arbitrarily incorporating the primary function of the opposing party into the Democratic party platform in order to render the Democratic Party, Unions, and Democratic voters powerless to effect significant constructive change.

Sure, the Corporate Friendly Liberals that control the Democratic Party at the federal level will vote for some Dem programs as long as they are not counter to the corporate agenda. But the corporate agenda is becoming more and more narrow as corporations gain more power, resulting in a snowball effect - meaning the more power they get, the fewer social programs and entitlements they will have to pay taxes to support, the more power they can take away from labor, the less they have to pay labor, the fewer unions they have to tolerate, the fewer social programs corporate friendly liberal legislators are obligated to support, and so on, and so on, ad nauseum.

This phenomenon is the essence of the cause of the recent struggle in Wisconsin. And currently many other states as well.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I would prefer that corporate friendly liberals leave the Democratic party and start their own party.

Because I am 100% sure of this:

If they threw a party, hardly anyone would come

That is why they had to co-opt our party instead of starting their own party. Otherwise, they would have no support and go the way of the Whigs. They infiltrated our party to make us ineffective and guarantee their ability to get elected because now Democrats very often have no choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils, and those two evils are often essentially republicans in nature.