The fallacy here is, that “The Democrats” need to “wake up” at all. The establishment is doing GREAT! The point of politics in a democratic system is to get as

The fallacy here is, that “The Democrats” need to “wake up” at all. The establishment is doing GREAT! The point of politics in a democratic system is to get as much power as possible, with as little investment and as little of the accrued power wasted on “the people” while holding it to assure a reelection. They've managed to design a system where most of "the peoples" time, effort, and focus is spent on issues that both have no effect on the rich and powerful, and who's messaging was designed in such a way as to prevent any real movement from a stalemate (while expending massive amounts of energy of "the people" fighting each other). So, the problem isn't with X political class. It's with "the people" who still believe in the fairy tale of democracy. Does not mean that democracy isn't a great system with a great opportunity (i.e. realistic chance for "the people" to increase their quality of life). It just means that to exploit that opportunity, we're going to have to start understanding and playing the system correctly.