Democrats have neither bowed down nor caved. They have been 100% complicit. Democrats have passed more right-wing legislation than Republicans. It took Bill Clinton to wipe out the Great Society branch of the New Deal, and with rare exception, our re-defined liberals applauded, raising the banner for the bourgeousie alone (note: This is right-wing ideology, not left). Clinton still found enough time to begin dismantling Social Security, targeting the disabled (note: We pay into Social Security retirement AND disability.), which lib media virtually ignored. And Big Bill gave us NAFTA, which (in a nut shell) essentially uses our tax dollars to cover the costs of shipping out our jobs. Throughout, liberal media has successfully, subtly, worked to divide the poor and middle class, the "masses," leaving the facts about US poverty out of the media. Since Reagan, we have redistributed several trillion taxpayer dollars to the top, always with the lie that it is "vital to job creation." (Results: We now have a fraction of the jobs, at worsening wages.) Today, Democrats want to slash meager food stamp aid to the elderly, disabled and poor. The middle class is fine with that, no problem. Now, this is a very important point for reasons that maybe only history buffs understand. This isn't the first time in our history when the richest few took control of the US, to the great harm of the country. Each time in the past, the poor and middle class ultimately united to push back, to everyone's benefit. That can't happen this time. There's nothing we can do about it now.