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Everything you claim should be done is what Bernie Sanders supported and that got us nowhere.
It's really easy to get up on your high horse and claim that leftist identity politics is the problem instead of looking at the systemic failures of American democracy. Lobbying, Gerrymandering, media outlet control, anti-intellectual propaganda, voter disenfranchisement, an underfunded education system, the electoral college, a packed supreme court, etc.
This isn't a case of 'if you can stop being righteous and just hate gay people for a moment we could have had universal health care.' This is a case of the democratic process unravelling in its end stages as the popular candidate lost the vote four times in the seven presidential elections.
That's a little hypocritical of you to call this "widespread, infectious binary thinking" when I was pointing this out in your comment, not advocating for it.
You're faulting liberals for stifling class warfare through engaging in identity politics, when you said so yourself that it doesn't have to be either or.
Identity politics isn't the enemy of class warfare, it's corporate interests, lobbying, and billionaires, and they want you to do exactly what you are doing now, which is to get liberals to gatekeep each other while they laugh at low tax rates.
Imagine if Bernie just gave up the first time he lost an election, he would have bowed out in 1972 when he only got 2.1% of the vote in a Vermont Senate special election.
Instead he's been bang on consistent with his views for going on 60 goddamn years now. The rest of the left could learn a lot from that.
Never forget that thousands lined up to vote for Bernie during covid, putting their health at risk and he ultimately... dropped out.
Real leadership quality there. I'm sure his candidacy would have been enough to stop the fascists.
Joe Biden.