Not to get too off topic, but I have a hard time blaming the left for the current political divide in the United States. Saying that someone who pushes leftwards is bad for American politics because they're not closer to the "center" seems like promoting a false equivalence.

I agree, and I don't blame the left as much as I blame the right. I do however think that exacerbating the divide is a bad thing.

But anything but going closer to the Right is "exacerbating the divide."

If you don't think both sides play a part in the precipitous spike in polarizing political discourse, then frankly you are ignorant.

Uhh. One side saying "kids shouldn't take six figures of debt to go to the college we've collectively insisted they need to go to" and the other saying "blood and soil, Jews will not replace us" are not the same thing, yo.

This. I liked her when she primarily concerned herself with consumer advocacy.

The political chasm is because the democrats keep moving right to try and win over moderate republicans the republicans keep moving into crazy territory.

Moving leftwards is absolutely the best thing the democrats could possibly do. further left policies are popular. Further left policies address the massive amount of voters who don't give a shit because neither party represents anything but corporations.

America could use 50 more senators that were willing to start moving much further left.

Because we aren't trying to win an argument here. It isn't about being in the right or winning, it is about successfully running a country.

The Right, particularly the "Freedom" Caucus goons, are specifically opposed to successfully running a country. They resent the very existence of government intervening on behalf of people at the expense of their donors. It is impossible to successfully run a country if you give those people veto power over the legislative process. They are here to engage in sabotage, not progress.

That still doesn't answer the question of why the Right isn't blamed for not reaching out to the Left. And given that they're the ones in power, it's their responsibility to do the reaching out.

The democrats just need to move even further right than their current neoliberal catering exclusively to donors platform.

That would close the gap.