What is the Democratic Party?
This failure of Obama points to the true nature of the Democratic Party. Despite their public image of standing for working people, women, the environment and civil rights, they are a party funded and controlled by corporate America. The leadership of the Democrats is rooted in corporate America. Under Clinton they passed NAFTA, founded the WTO, effectively abolished welfare, laid off millions of federal workers, militarized the Mexican border and instituted sanctions on Iraq that killed millions of its citizens. Despite their record, many progressive people close to the Democrats will point to the need to vote Democrat as the “lesser of two evils.” But this is falling into the trap set by big business and its two-party system. Both Democrats and Republicans are integral parts of this two-party system; when one of the corporate parties is discredited, big business has their alternative party ready to step in. Democrats rope in support from the leaders of labor and social movements by d
