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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
American politics become easier to understand when you recognize that the Republicans and Democrats are coalitions of people with different values and interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...voters-survey/
tldr: Even if you combine the Outsider Left and Progressive Left, they make up only 28 per cent of Democrats. So maybe the agenda of the progressive wing of the party isn’t thwarted by traitors and shadowy moneyed interests; maybe it simply isn’t very popular.
Here’s the original Pew study that the article got its data from.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics...al-typology-2/ |
Okay, Cliff, then explain why policies that enjoy greater than 60% support among Democrats, and are also +50% across the majority of political spectrum get thwarted by the establishment varieties.