Why Does the Liberal, Democratic Establishment Hate Progressives? Seriously

[DanTex]

145. I stand by that. He does display unhinged hatred of the Democratic Party.

It's clear from his words (e.g. calling Obama the n-word), but even more clear is the fact that he actively tried to help Trump win the presidency by endorsing Jill Stein.

No, I didn't make up the alt-left. For example:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/why-the-alt-left-is-a-problem
https://thedailybanter.com/2017/06/the-alt-left-is-losing-its-mind-and-people-are-noticing/

About giving Cornel West a pass, I see your argument, but...

First, there's no "potential" about it. The entire purpose of the Green Party is to drive people away from voting for Dems. There's no way to pretend supporting the Green Party is in the common good. Try to chalk it up do idealism, but Cornel West isn't some young naive 19-year-old, he knows the deal.

The other thing is, Cornel West doesn't abide by your philosophy here. At all. This is one of the intellectual contradictions of the alt-left. They claim that the Dems somehow hate the left, but their attacks on the Democrats are much more severe than any rhetoric going the other way. Obama also spent his life fighting for good causes, then he did a couple things Cornel West didn't like and suddenly West is calling him the n-word.

The whole premise of the OP that the Democratic Party somehow "hates progressive" is completely unfounded. Sure, there are Dems who don't, say, support single payer, but they don't say things like "single payer supporters are a bunch of scumbags". But the far left is constantly calling Dems neoliberal sellouts and corporate whores and worse.

What I see from a lot of the far left is absolute intolerance for any deviations from ideological purity. They can't just say that opponents of single payer are wrong, they also have attribute some kind of evil or corruption. They can't conceive that, hey, some progressives just don't think single payer is the best path to universal coverage in the US.

And then, irony of ironies, the very alt-leftists that accuse the Dems of being too accommodating of the GOP, they actually go out and help get Republicans elected.

And after all that, after Cornel West calls Obama the n-word and goes on to help Trump get elected, I decide to criticize him, and suddenly you accuse me of being divisive. That makes no sense at all.