Democratic strategy has been consistent and fairly simple: organize the voters in the centers of wealth and population, then use that vote to control the business activity responsible for the wealth and population to begin with. Take a nice cut of federal, state, and private money in the process. Examples abound. The problem is, this is Socialist Democratic machine politics and it invariably runs its course. As PM Thatcher said, "eventually runs out of other peoples' money," She ought to know, England is the poster child for Democratic Socialism.  Right now, UK is fighting to rid itself of that huge socialist scheme called the European Union.