Um no, laat year progressives were saying the same thing they are today, the Israelis have been bombing Palestine for over a year.

We differ on a salient point I think. You view progressives as radicals.

I don't think what the progressive wing of the party are asking for is radical. Neither does the article I posted.

I need to get better at reading usernames

Oh, no. I was referencing the Overton window in general. Not voter turnout as a function of conservatism vs liberalism vs progressivism.

Here's a quick article that will give some jumping off points for further research.

https://brockpress.com/the-overton-window-on-media-criticism-is-not-as-wide-as-it-needs-to-be/

This is my understanding of the problem as well. Moderate dems are selling the party to billionaires

Ah, sorry. I thought you were referring to election reform or presidential messaging. Yes, Dems in Congress have been a slight net positive.

It's a well regarded theory in political science. It also is present in many other democracies, look at Germany or Sweden for a current example.

Buying power and income disparity are at the same levels they were 80-90 years ago.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/4/1/18286084/gilded-age-income-inequality-robber-baron

Americans support "progressive" policy when it's not framed as a political question.

https://time.com/6990721/us-politics-polarization-myth/

Lastly, you think Americans were more progressive on average 90 years ago?

Low voter turnout is a voter access and apathy issue. Disenfranchised voters tend to not vote and that's a platform and outreach issue for the DNC. Low voter access is shit that elected dems should put first and foremost in their agenda once elected, but only Abrams and Sanders have talked about election reform since Carter was president.

They didn't do much to stop it

And what have they done to stop it?

There's a theory called the Overton Window and Dems moving to the center has shifted this whole country to the right. We lost abortion rights because of it and our election integrity and voter access is at risk because of it.

If you want to look at a winning strategy that directly refutes your point look at FDR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Franklin_D._Roosevelt,_third_and_fourth_terms

We're not handling the LLM generative bullshit bots now, anywhere. There's a thing called the dead Internet theory. Essentially most of the traffic on the Internet now is bots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory