EDIT: Which, by the way, also happens in the Republican party. See, for instance, the repeal vs replace movement and how those went nowhere.
I’m not sure how anyone who follows Democrats wouldn’t see the constant compromises unless they’re center or center right. Pelosi has control of the House but refuses to pass extremely popular ideas like pay check guarantees or cash per month for everyone, or rent cancellation etc.
It could setup a showdown in the senate where republicans have to vote down very popular ideas, but she refuses.
That’s just a recent example, it happens continuously...
The left is legitimately fractured, but maybe it's not as bad as it looks. Sound and fury on social media in the Bernie camp, yet the party coalesced strongly around Biden.
I'd like to hear the case for a left "political upheaval." Where will it come from? Bernie's theory was that youth would vote en masse, and that did not happen.
The problem the left is having right now is articulating what it is they actually want to do. Their main rallying cry for some time has been that they're not Trump, but then what are they?
It seems less than inspiring.
The USA democrats aren't a left wing party, they're a center and even center right party. A politically established left wing doesn't exist in the USA like it does in Europe.
> The USA democrats aren't a left wing party, they're a center and even center right party. A politically established left wing doesn't exist in the USA like it does in Europe.
"The USA republicans aren't a right wing party, they're a center and even center left party. A politically established right wing doesn't exist in the USA like it does in Saudi Arabia."
You can anchor anything anywhere. The Saudis aren't really right wing because they're not literally Hitler. The Nordic countries aren't really left wing because they have private industry. It isn't really saying anything.
Even the concept is flawed. Is a tax cut for the poor a left-wing program because it goes to the poor, or a right-wing program because it's a tax cut and implies a reduction in the size of government?
It matters if a policy is sound, not whether it's dexter or sinister.
Regan's amnesty for over 3 million illegals: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303...
Bush doubles immigration: https://immigration.laws.com/immigration-act-of-1990
Trump supports immigration in "greatest numbers ever" in 2019 State of the Union: https://time.com/5521860/2019-state-of-the-union-trump-trans...
The GOP has supported immigration since the civil war. Both parties are controlled by the same political forces, and neither are on the real left or right, however hard though they pretend to be.
Republicans pretty much never do that, it’s just boom, let’s give big tax cuts to the rich or stop all immigration.
Left side of the US needs to boldly actually fight for things rather than step my step planning out what “seems reasonable to republicans”, it’s just a bad losing idea, go boldly with what’s the moral and reasonable thing.