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Conservatives joke that progressives just blow with the wind from one controversy to the next. But I can't help but notice the anti-Biden "left" shifted hard from Genocide Joe to Bad debate Performance without skipping a beat or looking back.

Almost like the people stoking these fires don't really care about left issues at all.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Part of the problem I see is a major progressive generation gap at the top levels of elected government. Not even proper leftists, mind you, just progressives. Bernie Sanders is even older than Biden. The next oldest prominent name is AOC, who is almost 50 years younger and is only barely constitutionally eligible this year (by less than a month, even). There's probably someone political wonks can name in between those two, but they're not household names and would be unlikely to be able to spin up a campaign this quickly.

Decades of centrism have gutted the Democrats of anyone who could possibly stand up right now.