Today's Democratic Party is corporate to the core. This was unforgettably demonstrated by the shafting of Bernie Sanders in 2016, followed by the DNC's Tom Perez shutting out any progressive voices after the election debacle. This year, the DNC backed ex-CIA, ex-military, and ex-State Department intel people while defunding and, yet again, sabotaging efforts by genuine progressives.

Its really difficult to pretend that these corporatists are the friends of the working class - hell, the Clinton Creature called white workers "deplorables". In fact, the corpo-Dems have abandoned class-based rhetoric in favor of the divisive Identity Politics scam. It is from that scam that the whole McResistance theme was crafted by some well-paid consultants.

But, given all the evidence, which you can read below, its quite clear to me that corpo-Dems are the collaborators, not the resistance. They enable the corporate and the military agenda, except they try to pretend they are on our side. They aren't. The next time someone asks you to join the "resistance", tell them you are not signing up to be a collaborator in the looting of America and the replacement of democracy with oligarchy.

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The entire platform of the Party Formerly Known as Democratic is "we're not Trump". Excluding investigating every physical object Donald Trump has ever come within 10 feet of, the substance of their so-called platform is "more of the same", with the fossilized corporatist Nancy Pelosi given the nod to run the McResistance. And what does Nancy propose to do, besides voting for every military spending bill and every police state law that the GOP propose?

Nancy Pelosi proposes a tax rule that would shackle Democrats by requiring a supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom 80% of the population, thus effectively stymieing their ability to enact any major new spending programs.

'Staggeringly Bad Idea’: Pelosi Pushes Tax Rule That Would ‘Kneecap the Progressive Agenda’ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/staggeringly-bad-idea-pelosi-pus...

But the icing on the cake, the straw that broke my back, and got me to write this screed, was the corporate media touting Deval Patrick for President. Why, you might ask? Well read about the man:

Patrick...now has the the big New York media pushing his candidacy, firing his big opening salvos for him. Jeffrey Toobin, not a no-name writer, has an absolutely glowing piece about Patrick in The New Yorker...

Notice, among the down home details of this warm portrait, these critical facts: Deval Patrick is managing director of Bain Capital. His wife Diane is a labor lawyer, but on the management side, meaning she helps corporations fend off unions.

Toobin clearly doesn’t see any of that as a minus, but he should. Bain Capital, worth nearly $100 billion in privately held assets, is an acquirer and destroyer of companies. A classic “leveraged buyout” company, a vulture capital operation. Here’s what Bain did to Toys ‘R’ Us in 2018...What happened to America’s biggest toy store? Simply put, vulture capitalists ate it. One of those vultures was Bain Capital. Deval Patrick was its managing director, the man in charge, when this occurred.

New York Media Touts Private Equity Obamist Deval Patrick as Presidential Candidate

On the local level, he was another empty suit, much like the Obama he so wants to become:

Patrick was Proto-Obama as Governor — talking a good game, delivering next to nothing. I remember being so hopeful when I saw him inaugurated on the Common in January, 2007. It was and is all b—s—.

Patrick, like Obama, promised 100 and delivered a 12, and expects us to be happy for it.
Things we still don’t have: any kind of shared prosperity outside Rt. 128; Rail connections between Boston and major cities like Springfield, New Bedford, and Fall River; a clear accounting of how Patrick’s Department of Families and Children literally lost kids who ended up dead, and so on.

Like Mayor Marty Walsh, Patrick was the darling of the business classes, whose lust has now been transferred to his ideological — though not partisan — confrere, Charlie Baker (R-Mean Boss).

With his mega-mcmansion in the Berkshires, Patrick makes clear the relationship of the Boston bourgeoisie and wealthy to the rest of the Commonwealth: metropole and colonies. Did I mention Patrick’s love of pipelines to export fracked gas ripped from destroyed Pennsylvanian landscapes to world markets?

Like so many liberal [sic?] Democrats here in Massachusetts, Patrick is a moral abomination. Go Bain yourself, Deval!

-Swamp Yankee - commenting on the Deval Patrick story

Before I leave the slickly loathsome Gov. Patrick, I must share this comment:

Deval Patrick, the rich man’s Cory Booker.

- Lambert Strether, November 20, 2018 at 1:49 am

While Gov. Patrick is part of the pack of corporatist black candidates (Corey Booker, Kamala Harris), even the so-called lefties in the party are also a fraud.

Bill de Blasio is welcoming Amazon to New York City with open arms — proving that his progressive reputation was always a sham.

Long Island City is far from a wasteland in need of development. Already home to the Citigroup building and numerous city government offices, it has developed an almost Dubai-like landscape of high-rise residences, given its proximity to midtown Manhattan. The neighborhood was not in desperate need of a new employer like Amazon.

Yet the deal allots $48,000 in public money to Amazon for every job it creates. Meanwhile, austerity measures continue apace in the city. New York teachers recently settled a contract with raises that barely meet inflation. The New York Times recently reported that the city is considering partially privatizing public housing management, and subway riders, already beyond frustrated with delays and overcrowding, may see another fare hike. The city’s working class and poor continue to suffer blow after blow as de Blasio’s administration hypes the Amazon deal — a deal with no requirements for Amazon to hire locally or become more union-friendly.

The question so obviously begged here: how can an elected official like de Blasio, who ran on ending a “tale of two cities,” and constantly trumpets his supposed progressive credentials, so nakedly enact neoliberal austerity?

Bill de Blasio Is a Progressive Sham

How many times are voters going to fall for this bullshit? The Dems are collaborators, one and all. Sellouts. Phonies. Sheepdogs. People who had their ticket punched for this by the CIA. Hell, at least the Green Party has the balls to call out Israel:

US Green Party Representatives Deliver Call for Full Investigation of Israel's War Crimes Against Palestinians to International Criminal Court

I am so done with "lesser of two evils" voting. Hung or shot - either way you are dead.