There's a large faction of self-identified "leftists" who insist that the only path toward progress in the US is to continue slowly turning the Democratic Party into a leftist party. This is pushing on a fake fire exit painted on the wall in a burning building. It'll never open.
This faction is joined by another functionally identical faction which in theory advocates voting Democrat to minimize damage while undertaking direct action to push real change, but in practice only ever does the voting Democrat part.
Continuing to advocate pushing on the fake fire exit door is guaranteeing that you'll never escape from the burning building. There are other escape routes, they're just harder than pretending you can use a counter-revolutionary party to advance revolutionary agendas.
"Using the Democratic Party is the easiest way to effect real change" is like the old joke about the man searching for his lost keys under the streetlight, then when asked if that's where he lost his keys replies "No, but this is where the light is".
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1333988604817805313?s=20
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