When you write about politics, there’s a convention regarding capitalization. There is democracy, which is a political concept. Then there are Democrats, which are a specific corporate entity managed and branded by the DNC. There is a republic, which is a political concept. Then there are Republicans, which are a specific corporation represented by the RNC.

Both of these concepts — democracy and republicanism — these were radical ideas both, once upon a time. But Democrats purportedly champion Democracy, so let me focus on that.

Democracy is definitively the rule of the people. Democracy is expressed as a continuum. You could always have more democracy just as you can have less democracy. But it’s not a binary. Too many people think it’s a binary, that you either have democracy or you don’t. But that’s not how democracy works.

Right now, Americans enjoy very little democracy. Others, even less. A lot of basic people will try to defend America’s anemic democracy by claiming that other places have it worse, but let me make very clear to you right now that what other countries do is entirely irrelevant to the grievance that America’s democracy is anemic.

We are, according to many, many, many political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers living under conditions of oligarchy. Whatever flimsy democracy we believe ourselves to have is not rule. Right now, we are afforded the full risk of surviving a Great Fuckery with little idea of how to escape getting fucked over ourselves. The safety nets have long been eroded. Millions of us are hurting with no recourse. The people do not rule. The people are ruled.

Whatever democracy Democrats claim to be championing, it’s sick, rotten from the inside, riddled with black tumors. To me, the only thing distinguishing the Democratic Party from the Republican Party is the kind of carcinogens they endorse we imbibe. Warren Buffett’s ok with gay people so long as they vote to fund underperforming schools with Coca-Cola vending machines, ok?

I don’t care what underrepresented group you are from, unless you’re a fucking banker, you are getting hosed by the DNC. If you think the Party cares about your interests, you’re naive. You were sold out decades ago. Your kids, they didn’t even us have in mind.

After Citizens United, the oligarchy is laid bare. We can’t even contest it. Instead, basic yams seem to believe Hillary, its biggest beneficiary by far, won’t let their corporate financialization affect her jurisprudence. Right.

Because liberals are apparently that fucking stupid.

Much democracy.

Very people.

Wow.