Bernie, Come back! We need u!
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Source?
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/kamala-harris-most-liberal-senator-fact-check/index.html It feels like a similar Biden was most liberal while also actually in the middle (progress is made in the middle).
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"progress is made in the middle" eat ten pounds of your own shit
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Are they wrong?
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progress historically comes from the left protesting for things like women’s rights or a 40-hour work week. The center’s position is ALWAYS based on the status quo, and is relative among the overton window, and is thus not useful to make any meaningful progress, because the center will just as happily shift to the right when the overton window goes to the right
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I kinda get what you're trying to say and I definitely won't pretend like I'm very knowledgeable about these things yet, but wouldn't it be unrealistic to expect America to vote further left in this current climate?
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here's an idea: next time congress votes for something, passes something into law, ask yourself "was that popular? did they vote for that because the american people democratically demanded that this be their legislative agenda?"

the answer is always fucking no lol. what's popular and what's law have nothing to do with each other.

trump and biden are the most unpopular presidential candidates in american history, before that hillary and trump were the most unpopular presidential candidates in american history.

**this is not a democracy bro**

there's no left in america because liberals and fascists killed and arrested and paid off "the left" until it was eradicated, while mass butchering tens of millions of people around the world to eliminate labor politics from the earth entirely so they could build plantations and sweatshops and install fascist dictators to operate them everywhere resources they want to extract exist.
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