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That’s going to be the case for any capitalist party. Only a worker’s party will associate with workers.
I have a lot of criticism for the Dems, but I've also worked with them at several levels. A huge portion of the party is former or current blue collar. I think a lot of people see what they want to see. It's easy to think of the party as evil corpo shills, but the problem really is that the corpo shills rise to the top, not that they are as prevalent as people think they are. Money puts people in the executive.
I don't understand your position. If the party is being run by evil corpo shills, that makes it an evil corpo shill party?
If you want to run for president, governor, or mayor those positions attract enough money to effectively remove authenticity from the race. If you have 4 Dems in the primary and 1 of them is a business dem, that's the one most likely to have enormous capital shifted to. Which creates the conditions for their future victory. Our system of government and economic system are both infinitely corruptible irrespective of party.