2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Cornel West and James Zogby do not represent the Mainstream Democratic Party [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Check out the Socialist Progressives group. You might find it to your liking.
And of course you are correct, the Democratic Party has been a bourgeois party since its inception and has never been a socialist party or even a workers' party. They like to claim the "big tent" as a "party for all classes", like you can serve two masters. Class struggle is a zero-sum game. When the bosses win, the workers lose and vice versa.
I'm thinking that a more left third party is in the offing after this election. There's a LARGE percentage of the population that is to the LEFT of the current Democratic Party and the Dems have made it clear that they want those votes, but don't really want their input. That means probably around 25%+ of the population is unrepresented. That's a pretty big minority, bigger than the Republican identification.