Is the Democrat Party influenced by Marx?

[AmericanNation]

Lay out arguments for or against the question. 

[AmericanNation]

The question is not: 

ARE Democrats Marxists/Socialists

The question is:
Is the Democrat Party influenced by Marx?

Much easier bar to clear. 

[AmericanNation]

Another thing, AN- you should have defined exactly what you meant by 'influenced.'

I think you could say Republicans have influences like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith, etc. 

Democrats have influences like John Maynard Keynes, Che Guevara, and Marx.   You could make the argument that American democrats are influenced by European socialists(who are influenced by Marx) rather than Marx himself.     

[AmericanNation]

Yes and so is the Republican party. He was a rather important theorist after all.

By Christ though, why are so many people who follow politics or political engaged such unreasonable people?  Some people are just so stubbornly and yet blissfully ignorant that it is maddening to read.

I know, they were going crazy in a US senate thread about how democrats aren't influenced by Marx whatsoever and you would have to be a "narrow, ignorant, uninformed, uneducated, stupid" person to think so.