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We, as voting citizens, are left to believe Democrats don't want to move left. That is the only reason they won't adopt progressive policies. It's not because people wouldn't vote for them. It's exemplified by Bidens voting record. I'm not saying they should have picked someone with a better record. I'm saying, outside a handful of people, all of their voting records are shite when you start looking at them. From that handful they are either, 100 year old jesus(bernie) or a bunch of stinkers. Sure, they could pull from the younger generation but let's face it; the Democratic party structure favors seniority.
One thing is for sure neither party is going to willingly give up power and we as americans instinctually know the only way to get it back is to take it.
Unfortunately that is the only way left. The left doesn't have a Koch sugar daddy, who provided millions to establish teabaggers and far right crazies as political forces.
I wouldn't want a Koch sugar daddy. There is no such thing as a benevolent king.
Judging by what I've seen in my own country in the non-mainstream Left, people who have grown-up in the neoliberal era have generally interiorized stuff like "greed is good" (for supposed lefties, maybe not at the overt putting yourself first level, but certainly as the demanding for your "group" that which mainly benefits people like yourself) and Consumerism, and very few overcome that without a little bit of experiencing multiple sides of life (not quite the same as being old but up to a point correlated with age).
This would explain why its so hard to find people even in their 30s with actual leftwing principles ("the greatest good for the greatest number") rather than merelly liberal ones ("people should be allowed to do whatever they want") interpreted in a way that's compatible with things like extreme wealth hoarding - the latter are absolutelly compatiblle with neoliberalism (which wants that very same freedom of doing anything including in the economic field) whilst the former is not (because total freedom in the economic field quickly becomes the opposited of "the greatest good for the greatest number" because some people couldn't care less about making others suffer if it yields them even the tiniest of personal gains and since money makes money and money is power those often yield enormous power in a system where the power of the state has been nullified in the name of "freedom")