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The Democrat party is structured a lot like the Republican party at this point.

There's a lot of old guard establishment members that were in Washington when Kennedy was shot, the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden. They're old, they're corrupt, the only thing they will ever vote for is the interests of large business. They have 100% control over party policy, what they actually vote for and do.

Then you've got the radical social progressives. They tend to either be college gender studies majors or you get into the Hollywood performative Prius driving types. They're as uncompromising on their issues as the red hat crowd, they talk about men the same way MAGAts talk about Mexicans. They have basically no power over the way the party votes or behaves but they've got almost total control over the party's voice and messaging.

Labor, once a mainstay of the Democrats, is unrepresented in Washington. The old guard establishment on both sides of the aisle are pro-corporation and anti-union, the right wing MAGAts are "the only ethical union is my union" and the far left are so used to taking clean running water, sewer, electricity and gasoline for granted that they ask questions like "Why should I have to pay to live?" The people who fix power lines, drill for oil, mine for coal, repair, maintain and operate power plants, water treatment plants, sewer systems, pave roads etc. are so invisible to them they think they're already in that post-scarcity world.

So you've got a Democratic party that speaks for the feminists and votes for the Fortune 500. They don't have much to say to or for me.