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1: They have a whole bunch of voter base analysis experts who will stick tooth and nail to the theory that if they go too far left they'll alienate part of their voter base and lose votes, even though it has been demonstrated again and again that trying to maintain the status quo is a failure that lead to Trump's election to begin with and so is "playing the center" against an increasingly radical right.
2: They're also owned by the Corporations even if they're not as open about it like the Republicans are and do not want to actually fix any of the issues the people actually want fixed. It feels like they're just waiting for Trump to die, MAGA to collapse and them to win the next elections without ever making a single effort to do anything for the people.
I can't upvote this comment hard enough.
The influx of monied interests that fled the GOP during the first Trump term are largely to blame, IMO. They are rotting the Democratic Party from the inside, pushing to keep the failed economic policies of the Reagan-era, and the DNC have gotten fat and lazy feeding off their teet.
It is embarrassing to think that the most progressive policy that the US Congress was able to pass this millennium was the ACA back in ‘09.
The corporate rot of the Democratic party and corruption by monied interests has been around since at least the Clinton era, and that was in response to Reagan. It all comes back to Ronald fucking Reagan.
Absolutely agree that the rot was present all the way back then, my contention is more that the influx of Never-Trumper, temporarily embarrassed Republican monied interests into the modern Democratic Party was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.
I would go so far as to state that the GOP Fiscal Policy of the ‘90s would align with the current DNC platform, that is how far right the Overton Window has shifted in my lifetime.