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I love how progressives are simultaneously to blame for every loss and too insignificant to treat like a valuable constituency.
It's because the bulk are flakes.
Compare it to a party, or a social gathering. Bill is a bit racist and a loose cannon (R) but he shows up every time. Kelly and Joe are cool and level headed and show up quite regularly. Then there is Scott who shows up maybe 10% of the time.
Now, if I'm looking to invite people to the party and can only pick two, do I go for Kelly and Joe who are quite reliable or do I go with Scott and one of the other two knowing Scott says he'll go but then doesn't or just says flat out he isn't gonna come?
There are people whose whole jobs revolve around political campaigning and the data says progressives by and large will find one reason or another to not go vote. Or just vote for some esoteric third party therefore "wasting" the vote.
Put simply, the Dem message can't stretch far enough to cover both "centrist" voters and the way out there progressives. So a choice has to be made and the centrists come out to vote more often than progressives (at least for the Dems.) Or there are more of them compared to progressives coming out.
So I'll ask you too- what is the path forward to political viability for progressives? And I want a real honest to god plan and not just pie in the sky "well if we just abstain for the next few decades like we've been doing then they'll see the light" crap.
Appealing to your best friend Bill isn't going to get Kelly and Joe to show up any more reliably, and Scott is fed up with how you keep cozying up to Bill. But you always intended to blame Scott for no one coming to your "Let's all be like Bill" party.
Except Biden is courting Bill in this scenario.
I don't have to have the answers to know that "abandon your base to court lunkheads who hate you" is a stupid idea, no matter how much it means you get to move right.