Are you, or have you ever been

a member of the Capitalist Part?

Democrats represent corporate

and financial interests

They cannot and will not remedy any of

the deepest distress of the population

Preserving and extending the position of

American capitalism on a world scale

is the chief and overriding concern

There is no reason to have an election

The candidate with the most money wins the election

Cancel the election; set a date

— say the end of July 2008 —

and whoever has the most money is the winner

What is never admitted by the leaders of either capitalist party in the U.S., Democrat or Republican, is that it is the neocolonial project of U.S. big business in the Middle East and the brutality it has employed in an effort to break the Iraqi resistance that has turned virtually the whole population against the so-called “liberators.” - Deirdre Griswold

The Democratic Party is a capitalist party; it represents corporate and financial interests.

It cannot and will not remedy any of the deepest distress of the population. Preserving and extending the position of American capitalism on a world scale is its chief and overriding concern as well.

While it postures, with the help of the New York Times, as an opponent of Bush and Cheney, and of course there are sharp tactical differences, it won’t break from this orbit.

The present situation is untenable. The population voted to end the war, and it gets more war. Not only that, the social gap is accelerating, and the Democrats have not even proposed the most timid means of closing it.

Healthcare, education, housing—these are increasingly disastrous for people. Personal bankruptcies, foreclosures, food banks strained to the limit, divorces, domestic violence—all signs of personal and social distress.

People watch and read in dismay. The Tillman case, the family of a national war hero accuses the government of a criminal conspiracy. The wounded at Walter Reed are treated poorly.

The US, the home of the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address, is now identified with torture and secret prisons and military psychopaths.

All of this accumulates. Employees are escorted to the door of profitable companies for earning too much, perhaps $12 an hour. The conditions in the workplace are reaching the boiling point.

A recent study by the Employment Law Alliance found that 44 percent of Americans, and a higher percentage in the Northeast and Midwest, have worked for a supervisor or employer who they consider abusive.

Employer abuse includes “making sarcastic jokes/teasing remarks, rudely interrupting, publicly criticizing, giving dirty looks to, or yelling at subordinates, or ignoring them as if they were invisible.”

Sixty-four percent in the same poll said that they believe an abused worker should have the right to sue to recover damages. This little study provides a telling glimpse at American social reality.

Pensions and benefits are eviscerated everywhere. A handful of speculators decide on the fates of millions.

It becomes increasingly expensive and difficult in the US, the ‘richest country in the world,’ even to get married and set up a separate household. Consumer confidence is down, the stock market volatile.

An off-duty policeman, one of Chicago’s finest, viciously beats a defenseless female bartender and it’s caught on video.

This is to say nothing about the stupidity and conformism of the media, and the emptiness of most cultural products.

High office is essentially sold to the highest bidder. Today is a big day for the presidential candidates, as they report how much they’ve collected in the first quarter. Hillary Clinton is expected to have between $30 million and $40 million.

In a recent comment, veteran British journalist Godfrey Hodgson wrote:

The quarter ending on 31 March 2007 promises to blow away all previous records for political fund-raising in the US. Never has so much been raised, so early.

And never has money dominated coverage of a presidential campaign, almost to the point of extinguishing discussion of such less exciting matters as the collapse of the housing market, the politicization of the federal-justice system, prospects for healthcare and the war in Iraq.

A few days ago two Washington Post journalists, after diligent research, reported that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had raised over US$1 million in a single evening twice in three days:

Once in the lush technology-manured pastures of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, and then among the lawyers and the lobbyists in a gigantic Washington conference hotel ...

“It’s obvious,’ a blogger ironized, there is no reason to have an election. The candidate with the most money wins the election.

"Cancel the election; set a date—say the end of July 2008—and whoever has the most money is the winner. That is how it will end up anyway, and we don’t have to put up with politicians telling us how they have a new way of doing things.” David Walsh @ World Socialist