The Challenge to and Problem of the Democrats

There's a good diary over at Green Mountain Daily by diarist 'wdh3' today that accurately points out the true problems with the Democrats:

Still, with control of Congress up until the 1994 GOP take-over, and with Bill Clinton in the White House, the Democrats brought us things like NAFTA, which have driven down real wages not only here but in fact globally; and which, along with the aggressive expansion of things like the IMF and WTO in the post-Cold War Era, is responsible for a shocking Chasm between the wealth and security of rich and poor, have and have-not. Yes, even the Democrats are engaged in a class war that favors the rich and powerful over everyone else. But we can say that they are in no way as ruthless and unforgiving and demonstrative as the GOP in how they go about their business (which is in fact big business). And so we hope for their victory on election day.

But Democrats have not given us affordable, universal health care as a right of citizenship, as with the rest of the post/industrial West. They have not provided the working person with all the possible luxuries of personal freedom and liberty, as the revolutionary government of "democracy" had promised it would. There are no "livable wages" and therefore no "livable country". D's can, when those of them choose to do so, speak out against war in Vietnam, Iran-Contra, or war in Iraq. But they can't really do anything about it, because it behooves them to allow the forces of State to play-out their economic rules of perpetual and unfettered expansion, development, and "progress".