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The fact you're willing to list the ACA as progressive when the only reason it was passed was because yhe Dems let the Republicans kneecap it as a "progressive win" is fucking laughable.
And it shows the exact problem with the DNC, and why they lose: they can't just be progressive, they have to work across the aisle, and have to compromise, no matter what.
And to be clear, I'm not playing both sides, what you're listing as "progressive" is so laughably not progressive by any metric of the word, that it's almost funny. The "progress" has been returning to the status quo, every fucking election cycle, and yet you guys bitch and moan the left don't show up. Why would they, the candidates you're listing have one progressive policy you're attributing to them
And wow, cool, you listed Gore as the "progressive" candidate, and then list a single progressive policy he had while dismissing that the Dems gave up the fight for him and let the SCOTUS give it to Bush. Then you talk about one policy Obama had that was progressive and then claim he's punished for it: it clearly didn't have anything to do with the fact the ACA wasn't what the Democrats promised at all, and then they let the Republicans control the narrative on it.
There's no point discussing further with you, clearly Harris and Biden were the golden children, and all the voters, the people politicians fucking work for, they have to change and get over it. No no, it's not the Democrats who need to change, no, they've only lost 4 out of the last 7 presidential elections, they're completely right.
So let's keep voting them in so they can see that their centrist policies work and they don't have to change everything. Oh, you're going to change their mind after they're elected? That's cute, they already got your vote, what does your opinion matter anymore? You gonna protest? Yeah, ask the Anti-Genocide protestors how that was handled under the Biden admin, and how open they were to changing their stance on that after the fact.
What a fucking joke. 🙄