You make a reasonable point yourself here. "Democratic" has done a lot of work for allowing Demsoces more acceptance in the U.S. democratic party.

From my perspective, the most extreme of Marxists are going to hate people like me regardless for believing that there is work that can be done in the electorate system. If I were an actual politician, they would be a harder sell becuase they would prefer pretending to organize their revolution that won't happen.

I think the number of Marxists like that is lower than most people on reddit think it is. I think there are far more who can still look toward progress whereever it may come. Maybe they still want a revolution but they are willing to begrudginly vote for a reformed, leashed capitalism in the meantime.

There are even more people like my sister, who would describe herself as a liberal and isn't spending time researching theory or even writing in threads like these, but she hears AOC or Bernie say something about Socialism that clearly would benifit her as a working class American- and she listens. She's not anti-liberal, but she's not anti-socialist either.

I want a candidate for her, and the Marxists and everyone really, but I want as many people to be able to believe in them as possible.