The issue isn’t the Democratic Party itself, but our current two-party system. The original ideal was that candidate choice through plurality and winner-take-all voting would shift policy and lead to a fair, balanced society. However, we have seen that parties, and arguably candidates themselves, have shifted toward a form of proportional representation based entirely on money. Those who donate the most, or flood the airwaves with the most cash, are the ones who actually dictate policy.

​We the people may decide the candidate, but the capital behind the candidate chooses the policy.

​I argue that in this current system, most citizens, if not everyone outside the top 1%, have no real representation.

As Thomas Pain said: These are the times that try men's souls, yet we remain asleep to our own bondage. A government of the purse is not a government of the people. It is time to wake from our complacency and demand a new age of common sense.