As Tensions Simmer, Poll Shows Majority of Democrats Want Bold Leftward Shift

[Ken Burch]

252. Which would be a valid point if there were any disagreements on those issues among progressives.

There is no difference in the views of people who preferred Sanders in 2016 and people who preferred HRC in 2016 in terms of attitudes on reproductive rights and social justice. Rank and file supporters of both candidates have the same views on those issues, whatever any candidate was saying-and a lot of polls have born that out.

And this poll aside, the Democratic base isn't to the right of Sanders supporters on economic issues and the role of corporate power in politics and life. It's just that the base centers what you refer to as "social justice", wants the definition of that expanded to include a real effort to eradicate poverty, with economic justice added to that.

The base isn't to the right of Sanders-type economic ideas, it just states that economic justice isn't enough-and nobody was actually saying that economic justice would solve all problems, so there is no great divide.

To prevent a second Sanders campaign-which is something you and I agree should be prevented-we just need to add those economic democracy positions to the social justice positions we already hold. That isn't a difficult thing to do, and if we can do that, we can get out of this useless polarity. Circle squared. Problem solved.

Are you open to where I'm going with this?