The Future of the Democratic Party

So what can the Democrats do to get back in the game? As you may know they have been getting shellacked at the voting booths for the past twenty years or so as baby boomers have aged and gotten more conservative.

Well, for one, they can take a page out of the book of the Tea Party that rose up against the traditional Republican Party. The Tea Party arose because many conservatives felt that that their leadership had sold them down the river. Many began asking themselves why conservatives had gotten in bed with rich fat cats.

Democrats might ask themselves the same question. Why are Democrats hanging around with rich fat cats from Goldman Sachs?

So bad has it gotten that the state of New Jersey, a reliably liberal state, has become a stepping stone for Goldman Sachs executives to enter the political arena.

Rich fat cats only care about rich fat cats. Rich fat cats don't give a rat's ass about regular people except if they turn to crime, become addicted to drugs or volunteer to go fight in wars which the rich fat cats begin. Then, and only then, do regular people make them money.

Corporations, you see, build and supply the prisons, the drug programs and, of course, the non-stop global killing machine that our military has become.

It was the corporations themselves who stripped Americans of their well-paying jobs, shipping the manufacturing out to China where labor was twenty-five times cheaper. That improved the bottom line and made corporate fat cats rich.

You know, when I was a boy, the Democrats were hippies, flower power and anti-war; they stood up for the American worker. Hippies didn't trust anyone over thirty. It was the Age of Aquarius, baby.

That sounds like a plan to me.

Instead of stunts, which have the substance of cotton candy, Democrats should return to the meat and potatoes of sticking up for regular people.

Instead of criticizing Donald Trump through anonymous letters to the New York Times, Democrats need to offer real alternatives to the war-time economy. There is no reason why those same corporations that wage war can not rebuild America and put millions of people back to work in meaningful jobs. Along the way, these same corporations might be broken up into smaller, more accountable entities that are more responsive to what Americans value.

The best welfare program is a steady job.

The Tea Party understands that.

So should Democrats.