The problem with the Democratic Party

Robert Reich: " Some Democrats don’t want to tell the true story of concentrated wealth and power because they are drinking at the same trough as Republicans."

"The Democrats want to be on the side of social justice and fairness and equal opportunity and political equality, and yet some Democrats are taking money and don’t want to bite the hands that feed them.

"I’ve seen it personally. I saw it when I was at the Federal Trade Commission; I saw it when I was at the Justice Department working in the Ford administration; I saw it very close up when I was in the Clinton administration and then at a distance when I was providing some advice to Barack Obama. One of the frustrating things about writing this book and reliving these years is that I came across memos and letters and videos of me at that time saying over and over again, like a broken record, “If we stay on this path, we are going to find ourselves in the not-too-distant future with a demagogue, and our democracy is going to be threatened.”

Reich: "It strikes me as a little crazy that the Democrats are divided between the establishment Democrats, who I call corporate Democrats, and the progressive Democrats. Why aren’t all Democrats progressive Democrats?

Who in the world needs corporate Democrats when you have a Republican Party that is pretty good at representing big corporations, even though it now has a facade of populism?"

"Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican people will vote for the real Republican all the time."--Attributed to Truman