If you are like me, and believe that the Democratic Party has betrayed ordinary people while catering to big business, then a new book by Lance Selfa, called [The Democrats: A Critical History](http://www.haymarketbooks.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=Haymarket&Product_Code=UHPTD) might be up your alley.
You can read an excerpt, which examines the FDR era, on [SocialistWorker.org](http://socialistworker.org/2008/09/17/labors-unhappy-marriage). I think this quote sums up the way average Americans have been treated:
> BUT HOWEVER much animosity corporate leaders expressed against Roosevelt, his pro–working-class legislation served a larger purpose in salvaging the capitalist system during this enormous crisis by ensuring that the system would not be forced to concede more than was absolutely necessary to contain the class struggle. A remade Democratic Party was the vehicle Roosevelt used to absorb the rising labor movement within the confines of the existing political establishment.
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