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Most older Dem pols see their job as reacting to whatever is in the environment and news cycle. They cannot imagine using their position to project public power, to them that is wildly inappropriate. Governing power is only legitimate from financiers or policing agencies.
Powerlessness among elected officials is *an ideology.* It's how libertarianism works on the left. Reject public government as an agent of power.
Most old Dem voters are libertarians in exactly this way. They don't want government to project power and they demand their leaders defer to finance. It's not said this way, it's said through 'I want politicians to get along and compromise' but that's what it means. Ideology.
Libertarians won the debate because they convinced *both* parties of the futility of democracy and have done so without Democrats even knowing they have been persuaded.
