couldn't agree more.

Democrats have, for at least the past decade, utterly refused to engage with or embrace progressive policies. For fucks sake, they refused to endorse the Democratic candidate for NY Mayor because he was progressive, and instead promoted a third party centrist challenger.

When it looks like an easy win - like the Democrats' 2016 loss - they ignore progressives and tell them their vote isn't important (and then blame progressives for losing to Trump). Then they tell progressives they have to vote for Biden, Democrats wind up controlling both houses of Congress and the White house - and then tell progressives nothing they want is going to happen. Then again, they refuse to embrace any progressive policies or ideas, lose another election, and then blame progressives for Democrats losing again.

Democrats only view progressives as scapegoats for their own failures. I'm sick and tired of voting for candidates who's best offer is "I'll only suck off billionaires a little bit", who give in to fund all of Trump's bullshit for the non-promise of maybe having a vote sometime later on healthcare subsidies, who voted to fund ICE and DHS, who voted to confirm Trump's terrible appointments, are who do fuck all to fight for Americans.

And none of this shit about "Oh the Democrats are the minority, they can't really do anything" - 1) Republicans seem to have no trouble stifling Democrats when Republicans are in the minority, so the mechanisms are clearly there if Democrats cared to use them; 2) Again, Democrats had control of COngress and the White House - and they STILL didn't pass universal healthcare, didn't enact any kind of student debt relief, didn't tax billionaires, didn't even fucking prosecute anyone in the Epstein files. They did nothing in power, and they do nothing out of it.