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Pelosi and co aren't populists, they literally think it's virtuous to stand up to their voting base and not be bullied into doing what the masses want.
And yet those same masses keep re-electing them against their own interests...
Do feel free to explain why people keep saying yes to being exploited by people who are literally growing old and dying in office after spending their entire careers fucking over the next five generations of Americans.
Because the msm tells them better things aren't possible. The average Biden or Hillary primary voter doesn't think free healthcare is bad, but that an imaginary moderate republican won't vote for a candidate who supports them, but will vote for a moderate, and therefore moderates are more "electable" than candidates with policy that improves peoples material conditions.
Even here on lemmy we get libs talking about triangulation; the notion that voters vote for whoever is ideologically closest so the most electable candidate is one iota to the left of the republican, and the least electable republican is the most extreme right.