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Progressive policies are actually popular. Universal healthcare is popular, raising the minimum wage is popular. But the Democratic party will only run on half measures that satisfy no one because they are beholden to their corporate funders
Not according to voters patterns they aren't. Comments on Reddit, threads on Lemmy and shits on Xitter doesn't do anything if by the end of the day people who are incredibly active in those threads just don't vote. It is either because it's actually not a lot of people doing a lot of noise, or a lot of people who don't know how American democracy operates, and it doesn't matter if there is a difference. Promises of progressive politics don't bring votes, simple as.
When polls come out about individual issues they show Americans in favor of progressive policies. If the Dems can't turn that into election outcomes it's their failure
Those polls mean shit, if people who vaguely "want progressive policies" then turn back and either vote directly against them, or just don't do anything. You can yapp whatever you want, want whatever you want, but if you don't vote for it, or at least against polar opposite, you might as well put your head up your ass and express your opinions to the audience there.
People who saw Trump, and didn't vote against him for a candidate that is obviously, demonstrably better on all the issues you can care about, didn't do it because that candidate wasn't better enough, they did what they did because they OK with Trump. As to who's fault it is... I don't know, human nature probably, lack of education, lead paint, huge number of factors.
Do you want the Democratic party to take these factors into account and find a way to succeed despite them or do you want them to keep doing the same thing and failing?
Universal healthcare is popular. Raising the minimum wage is popular. Being openly hostile to the robber barrons of our age is incredibly popular.
It is possible to run a left populist campaign and win on these things but that's not something the dems are comfortable with