Yes, that's right. In its current iteration, the Democrats are the enemy of the 99 percent. To help you understand why, let me tell you a little story. Once upon a time there was a center-left party that held power for many years, until they squandered it by abandoning whatever principles they had, and betrayed working people and unions, in order to serve the capitalist oligarchs, wealthy elites and militaristic elements in their country.

The name of that party? The Social Democratic Party of Germany, known in Post-WWI Germany by the name Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, or SPD for short.

Right from the get go, the SPD, as the largest party in post-war Germany, were dedicated to preserving their power against any challenges from either the right or the left. Indeed, their initial response to left wing political movements was to attack and suppress them, if not eliminate them all together.

The political vacuum was filled in November 1918 when the leaders of the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, abbr. SPD) and of the left-wing Democrats formed a Council of People’s Delegates. It was headed by Friedrich Ebert, a moderate politician who rejected the idea of a Soviet-style revolution and advocated the establishment of a parliamentary democracy [citation omitted]. ... The new Constitution bestowed on the President extensive powers. Article 25 gave him the right to dissolve the parliament, and the infamous Article 48 allowed him in case of emergency to take all the “necessary measures” to restores order. Furthermore, he could deploy the armed forces and suspend constitutional rights [...] Friedrich Ebert [the first SPD President of the Weimer Republic] made use of Article 48 in order to crack down on radical leftist movements or to dissolve local governments he deemed dangerous [citation omitted].

In the end, however, the SPD lost power by continually moving their "center" further to the right. Thus, they created the conditions for a an extreme right wing party led by a charismatic ideologue (who never won the popular vote!) to take power. Here is their story, in brief:

The SPD were the political party that identified most with the Weimar Republic. They committed themselves to defending the republic “from attacks by both left and right”. The party had already shown its readiness to crack down brutally on the radical left after the November revolution in 1918 and the ensuing civil-war-like battles around local revolutionary councils. At that time the SPD had allied with the old economic and military elites of imperial Germany to defeat the revolutionary upsurge and establish a democratic republic with some social reforms, but also ensured that capitalist property relations remained untouched. Because of this historic compromise, the Weimar Republic found itself burdened with a broad layer of military officials, judges and government clerks opposed to the republican reforms. It was precisely this layer that was open to fascist politics and moved closer and closer to the Nazis after 1929. The SPD’s identification with the Weimar Republic became increasingly problematic for the party as the crisis deepened. As the majority of the population increasingly lost hope in capitalism and the republic, millions searched for a political alternative. Because the population identified the SPD with the republic it proved impossible for it to capitalise on this widespread radicalisation, let alone channel it in a socialist direction. The Social Democrats became victims of the economic, social and political crisis that racked the Weimar establishment and were dragged down with it. The SPD participated in a governing coalition with bourgeois and conservative parties from 1928 to 1930. From 1930 to 1932 they tolerated the authoritarian, right wing government by decree of Heinrich Brüning as a sort of lesser evil opposed to the Nazis. Brüning’s solution to the economic crisis was austerity and deflation. He savaged the welfare state, raised indirect taxes and pushed down wages. These measures spelled untold suffering for the millions of workers who supported the SPD.

Now I understand that the SPD's history within the context of the Weimer Republic is not a perfect analogy for the Democratic Party in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the Post-Reagan era. However the SPD's actions bear some striking similarities to how the Democrats responded to what they considered the greatest threat to their hold on political power - Ronald Reagan and the GOP control over the business donor class. Here's my short list of the measures the Democrats took that are evocative of how the SPD responded to the threats it faced.

When you add to this the fact that Hillary Clinton used her control of our major media outlets to practically handpick her GOP opponent, while her campaign and the DNC illegally worked together to undermine the Sanders' campaign, the only truly progressive candidate running for the nomination of either of our two major parties, it's easy to see the parallels between the SPD during the Weimar era in Germany, and the Democrats. Over the past three decades in the United States, the Democratic party desperately attempted to hold onto to power by any means necessary, but especially by throwing their base supporters under the bus to accommodate the rich and powerful. In the end all the Democrats achieved was to hand deliver to Donald Trump, and his extreme right wing, neo-fascist inner circle, the keys to the most powerful nation on earth and the ability to further destroy what little is left of our so-called representative democracy.