Lance Selfa

Anyone who wants to understand how we Democrats have been bamboozled, need only read Selfa’s book. I was searching for an explanation as to why the party I thought represented the working class seemed to have abandoned it. Even its best efforts at championing common people’s interests always appeared halfhearted and disingenuous. This book explains in great detail how my belief, as was that of many others, was always based upon an illusion. As the other property party, the best the Democrats offered was a curb on the worst excesses of capitalism. When challenges to the rule by the elites was challenged through populists, progressives, labor, etc., the Democrats were waiting in the wings to undermine these efforts at creating a more egalitarian society.… (mer)