Sorry Sen. Sanders, But Most Ds Are Quite Happy With the D Party As Is

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21. The problem is that a lot of lefties are getting their news from essentially left-wing variants of

Breitbart, Drudge, Rush and Hannity. Sure it's on the other political side so it's "better", but it's still about as detached from reality and sensationalistic. That's why a lot of voters on both sides end up hating "the establishment", without an actual understanding of how to change it in a peaceful, consensus-building manner, and also without an actual understanding of why the "establishment" acts in the way it does (hint: white racism leading to the rejection of progressive policymakers created an opening to move the Overton Window far right which has forced Democratic lawmakers to adopt a lot of economic/fiscal positions that would be fairly conservative before this shift but moderate now to keep Republicans from winning).

But the professional "Left" doesn't talk about this, or alludes to it in a dismissive anger because it would alleviate the anger at Dems and focus it on Repubs, and a narrative of betrayal and selling out drives way more clicks than actual policy analysis. I know this because I was one of them, who read all those sites for my daily dose of outrage and screeds about how the Democratic Party was selling out everyone but Wall Street. So you create a lot of angry, frustrated, upset people who feel less and less economically secure and suddenly they believe the Democratic Party is hopelessly corrupt and doesn't care about them because that's what they got told.