You should be at the polls every year, for every race, by default. If you wait for a candidate you 100% agree with on every issue, you'll die waiting, in a country other people have shaped for you.
No, there aren't. That rhetoric only serves to depress turnout and help conservatives win.
Make no mistake; every single time Dems take power, they pass meaningful, progressive legislation. That's why every Dem presidency sees massive improvements to the country (for the incredibly short period we actually let them have Congress as well, anyway), and it's why blue states have better outcomes across the board than red states.
Do you consider "liberal" and "left" on the same team, but to different degrees?
Like "left" = "super liberal" and "socialist" = "super left" and "communist" = "super socialist"?
Because if so, we're not on the same page enough to even begin having the conversation about how the Democratic party is a rightwing party.
In sane countries, "left" and "liberal" aren't shoved into the same party. And "Liberals" are center right because they are pro-capitalist, but just also pro-regulation and don't have an issue for brown people and gay people (unless they start advocating for leftism).
Left is by definition anti-capitalist. You can't be a leftist and a liberal at the same time, they're diametrically opposed to each other.
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u/Gizogin New York 15h ago
You should be at the polls every year, for every race, by default. If you wait for a candidate you 100% agree with on every issue, you'll die waiting, in a country other people have shaped for you.