The idea that Democrats should make it their priority to get us back to "normal" is worse than naive

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118. So who are the ultra left wing candidates?

Do they have positions that are included in the Democratic party platform? I would guess that there's pretty significant agreement between the "ultra left" candidates and the party platform.

Is it fair to call Biden an "ultra right" candidate for the Democrats? I don't think so - so why is "ultra left" acceptable? The Democratic Party, overall, is quite centrist, well within the boundaries of public opinion, including Sanders and Warren, who you may be referring to but are reluctant to name.

Nobody wants to lose to Trump. The only person who ever has was a moderate. What are the lessons there?

I also get tired of black voters being referred to constantly as debating points, but I don't see any big rush in these conversations to talk about the issues of higher concern to black voters. More often than that, I see the few black candidates for the nomination getting bashed for talking about their experiences and viewpoints. Unless your name is Barack Obama or John Lewis, the rhetoric in this forum towards black voices is frequently excoriating.

And if history is a guide, black voters will support the nominee at a rate of 90+%. It's white voters that are the problem - they provide majorities for Republicans. Let the primaries decide who earns majority black support. The talk about black firewalls that goes back to the Clinton-Sanders race is always reductive and didn't help us in 2016, piling up primary victories in South Carolina and Alabama that didn't help in the GE at all.

Why can't we, the supposedly evidence based party, simply disagree without labeling fellow Democrats as "ultra left"?