> > *“The Republicans <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/republicans> go for > the jugular; the Democrats go for the capillaries,”—Kevin Phillips* > * excerpt - *Should Democrats somehow be elected, corporate sponsors make it politically impossible for the new officeholders to alter significantly the direction of society. [This point is exquisitely exemplified by the first couple of years of the Obama administration <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/obama-administration>, when they held the federal trifecta and still managed to privilege the kleptocratic banksters of the housing crisis and the war criminal gangsters of the W. Bush regime.] The timidity of a Democratic Party <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/democratic-party> mesmerized by centrist precepts points to the crucial fact that, for the poor, minorities, the working class <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/working-class>, anticorporatists, pro-environmentalists, and anti-imperialists, there is no opposition party working actively on their behalf. By ignoring dissent and by assuming that *the dissenters have no alternative*, the party serves an important, if ironical, stabilizing function and in effect marginalizes any possible threat to the corporate allies of the Republicans. The Democratic Party, conversely, could not, and still cannot, afford to attend to the material needs (e.g., a national healthcare <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/healthcare> system, affordable housing <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/affordable-housing>, environmental and consumer protection, financial and anti-trust regulation, a peace dividend) of its traditional popular base because it was and is terrified of offending its donor class. full article - *https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-can-t-dems-win <https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-can-t-dems-win>*
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