I've been a far left voter since I cast my first presidential ballot for Ralph Nader in 2004 and, even before then, I've wondered why the Democratic party in specific and liberals in general are so openly hostile to their base. Voters like myself don't vote for Democrats because our values aren't reflected in them, and we know that a furthering of the status quo will only continue to hurt those that are already in pain, and then we get blamed when the Democratic candidate fails to generate enough enthusiasm to win the presidency with policies that only very recently have had a stark contrast between the two. And besides the fact, can you imagine what would've happened if the John Edwards scandal happened under a John Kerry White House?

The Democratic party had fifty years to shore up Roe v Wade, and they didn't. When President Obama had a supermajority and the federal legislature, a bill hit his desk that would've protected abortion rights, and he vetoed it. He ran on a platform that made Single Payer Healthcare a central pillar and then he dropped the single payer option immediately in negotiations.

The polling very simply demonstrates that the true failure of the Democratic party is to hew to the right. Universal healthcare, full abortion rights, LGBTQ civil rights, Land Back and all sorts of other policies deemed 'too far to the left' are supported by a majority of the country, so long as you don't mention the 'socialism' word. Bernie Sanders is one of the most popular politicians in history, which he has been consistently for awhile now, and in both 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 he had a far wider lead over Trump than either Clinton or Biden ever had. And that's not even mentioning the open hatred that Nancy Pelosi shows towards 'The Squad.'

Like, is there an innocent reason for this? Is there a reason why the candidate that's willing to give trillions to the police, border patrol, concentration camps and the war department (it's not a 'defense department' and it never has been) but balk at the very notion that the government should work for its people? We can always afford guns and bombs and cops but never healthcare or debt forgiveness or even a piddly raise to the federal minimum wage?