Bummer, I thought I was going to read something intelligent, but instead read PC propaganda and a selective history lesson. Indeed, brutal politics is nothing new, and has gone on since George Washington who hated going before congress.  As for the new deal making a strong middle class, bwahahahahahaha. That was funny. WW2 is what put American's back to work, not the new deal. Post WW2 America had 0 competition, we blew it all up in the 40's, and that's what built our middle class, along with affordable housing the new deal democrats have outlawed to increase property tax revenue through market manipulation that is now hammering the middle class and has chained the poor to poverty.