Skirne: If the US had any authentic leftist organization / threat from the left the Democrats might do that, but since the state mechanisms to suppress the left are so fucking effective there's no sustained threat from that quarter and so Dem efforts at this pretense are at best half-hearted.

The Moderate Centrist Brain™️ is fascinating to behold. Zero historical knowledge or political understanding. Just pure vibes and dogshit takes.

This is what I don’t understand about American politics. It feels like Democrats fight like hell over a very small sliver of the voter demographics who mostly don’t like them anyways, and completely ignore a much larger pool of voters who would be an easier sell.

I feel like the most obvious answer to this one is “capitalism” but it doesn’t really explain to me why the Dems don’t at least just *lie* to appeal to the left.

If the US had any authentic leftist organization / threat from the left the Democrats might do that, but since the state mechanisms to suppress the left are so fucking effective there's no sustained threat from that quarter and so Dem efforts at this pretense are at best half-hearted.

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