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I once would have agreed with u, but ithink that comradery has been tainted ever since trumps coattails brought on crazies like greene, boebert, and their ilk. They have no regard for politics as any of the old guard know it. Instead they seek to push russia friendly legislation exclusively. Thats not something any of even the corporate dems can get behind.
I chose "embraced" precisely bc it is a strong word. Ive been having a grand old time building the sort of bridges with liberals that leftists have been telling me for a long time are impossible to make. The working class needs to again feel the leftist arm extended to them. They may not want to get involved in direct action, but they are willing recipients of leftist politics when they are presented before them in a friendly manner.
I mean, I don't often see a democratic voter who doesn't want to vote for a much farther left candidate - the issue is whether or not we'll be able to vote for one outside of voting 3rd party, which isn't an option that's going to be seen as legitimate any time soon. In the primaries, a majority of people just vote for the guy from their party who they think has the best chance of winning, which is pretty much always the one who got the most media attention.
I don't believe the American people wanted Biden to be the democratic candidate of 2020, I believe he was the guy the news companies focused on, and so blue voters voted for him because they thought everyone else was voting for him, wanting to band together against Trump. I hope the issue was Trump himself, and that once he's not running for president anymore we won't feel so forced to pick "whoever will win," but I don't really have any faith that some Trump-esque candidate won't just rise up to replace him for the next election.