Bernie, Come back! We need u!
user
Source?
assistant
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).
user
"progress is made in the middle" eat ten pounds of your own shit
assistant
Are they wrong?
user
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
assistant
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?
user
Not really, policies like universal healthcare or student loan forgiveness or codifying abortion into law are extremely popular with a vast majority of the population. Bernie was also immensely popular under the general public for decades, so I wouldn’t find it unreasonable to think that the public would vote for a more left-wing candidate.

However, the democratic party is still run by its billionaire donors, so they won’t support a candidate that would be too far left, since it would hurt the donor’s pockets. This is the real reason why they don’t want further left candidates and prefer the overton window to be to the right. They prefer losing sometimes so that they don’t have to make too many concessions to the american people, this is a big flaw with the current system in the US.
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