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A Democratic mayor for Miami is not just Trump backlash – it’s a seismic shift
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Because Bernie isn't a democrat. He's a progressive.
Democrats want people that are corrupt and favor policy for rich people and big businesses
Yes, he's a progressive, that's my point. When the people were presented a neolib and a progressive, the neolib doubled the progressive's votes. Primaries are decided by voters.
My point is that the only people who voted in that primary were Democrats, which is not a party of progressives, nor do they represent the average US American
And my point is that your assessment of the average American is not supported by evidence. I would certainly wish that the average American would be in support of a progressive candidate, but there are no facts to support it. We can't direct strategy with wishful speculation. We have to suit our strategies to the actual conditions of the environment in which we live.
That's not true. The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe. Polls show this.
Yet the vast majority of "elected" representatives continuously vote on these issues against their constituent's wishes.
Give the voters an actual progressive, and they'll come out of the woodworks to elect them
Those aren't really progressive positions though. Progressives hold them, but so do many, many other people. You can't use that as evidence for a broader progressive sentiment.