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So left. That's what leftism is.
While globally true, it isn't what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all. They work with Republicans to deny class struggle exists while they bicker on social issue symptoms. A for profit media amplified left/right freak show designed to keep us distracted and hating each other over relatively petty social issues so the owners can bleed us dry in peace. They've made us so divided on so many lines we can barely see straight, all to facilitate profit/growth/metastasis at all other expense.
The handful of spoiler candidates the DNC despises and undermines more than Republicans notwithstanding, the owner's succeeded in legalizing political bribery in the US, and thus we have an economically right-wing neoliberal party and a "put undesirables in concentration camps" party to the right of them.
A leftist movement either needs to steal the DNC infrastructure out from under them and force the neoliberals out as Trump did with the GOP by out-hating them, or we need to somehow make a third party work.
Because the DNC and the RNC are high on Corporate bribe money. Their values align more with one another than their voters. They will do all they can to undermine this movement, and will cooperate on that like peas and carrots.
https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi 'Making Calls' to Undermine AOC's Bid for Top Oversight Role)
Alternatively, we can just continue to be comfortable having our children murdered solely to increase quarterly earnings of cheering profiteers that would consider your dead child less than human if they bothered to think about them at all, which they wouldn't.
"Democrat" is not synonymous with Left. Most Democrats aren't leftists
This. Comparing them to my national parties (NL), my rough estimate is that the Dems are more right wing than D66, and they're pretty much centre-right.
Come back to me when your left is on par with GL-PvdA
The US democrats are a far right party. The US doesn't allow any left-wing party to reach the public sphere, because its far right country.
??? Democrat party was traditionally center-right and now is far-right
Most social justice aware leftists don't deny class issues, lol wut