Except the democratic party isn’t a large tent. There are almost no leftists in power in it. And those voters that are leftists are rapidly leaving the party.

You can’t get a progressive party by becoming the white suburbanite party.

If there was a real leftist candidate you’d ally with the GOP to remove them. You might even kill them or throw them in prison.

Both us parties are right wing. So yes, the right (dems and GOP) have gone farther right.

Neither party takes positive climate action.

The man is voting for the democratic because his ideology is fundamentally consistent with the democrats.

It is more like they see an opportunity to push the democratic party even further to the right. Dick is in your party because he is comfortable there. You have no politics that are fundamentally inconsistent with his.

when someone deliberately does something violent to innocent people, attacking them *first * and you respond that they have the right to “defend themselves”, yes you are complicit.

Israel isn’t and has never “defended” itself. It is the instigator of this conflict.