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In reply to the discussion: Ari Melber Says Biden Increasingly Sounds Like 'The New Bernie' [View all]LizBeth
(9,952 posts)The thing, mostly all our Democrats, 0ur base are progressive, some more so than Sanders and certainly more effective. Since 2015 in order to win the election so campaign rhetoric we have been hearing there are only some (they tell us often) as being progressive's instead of a whole Democratic base. We have many many many progressives and they are not in the "left" group. It has been a struggle we have been having for five years because the base is continually being told they are not progressive regardless of the fact they are the very ones moving the progressive accomplishments.
It has got to stop. It was a false accusation/characterization in the 2016 campaign as it is now. We had Warren and Harris and Gillabrand in the run off and they rank higher progressive than Sanders.
Sanders does not get to own what the base progressive is actually moving forward. Markley is in the top five most effective and I do not know many that can out progressive him.