Thinking about this, I really think the contemporary Democrats have roughly the same relationship with Big Business now as Republicans did from perhaps the 1880’s through perhaps the 1920’s.
They protect Big Business, and really don’t give a flying fuck about Mom and Pop. Why? Big Business protects Big Government, with the added condition now that Big Tech with their Big Journalism (handful of media companies) partners also condition and “purify” the information allowed out to the masses.
Words are not magical. They do not refer to real realities simply because we say them. If I call white black, it does not become black unless we redefine white, in which case we then need to redefine black.
Saying your side is the good guys does not make them the good guys. It doesn’t matter what sort of person you are: if you are willfully ignorant, you are complicit in all the problems your decision to be stupid creates.
Woke means woke. It does not mean ideologically compliant. As with most things Left, the word has been perverted into its inverse. “Woke”, on the Left, means dully, duly, and dismally grayly compliant, which inherently means the principled rejection of reason, the rejection of the search for consistency reason demands, and the rejection of the duty to think independently which moral coherence and accountability demands..