Occam's Razor would indicate that if the Dems never seem to go for the jugular, but instead always genuflect to the Republicans, it must be because these Democrats are in nature indistinguishable from Republicans. They take their campaign money from the same corporate top 1% donors, and they must deal with a mass media that is highly concentrated in ownership and which leans toward fiscal conservatism. If you look at Obama, notice where he got (and continues to get) his money, notice how he is treated by the MSM, and look at the people he has appointed to his cabinet, it all pretty much fits. What we have is one party with two heads. A good cop/bad cop situation. There is no more 'workers' party'.