Political Memes

The DNC platform in general has a lot of leftwing policy yes. However, they're very... noncommittal about it. The party leadership is a bunch of geriatric centrists who only pass some progressive policy among an ocean of status quo centrism. However, that part alone is... fine. It's not good, but not really a big problem. The big problem is how they sideline their leftwing platform whenever there's an opportunity where they think they can do that without being flayed by voters, such as in this election. I'll paste my reply to the other guy here.

The reason I'm asking is that the Harris campaign progressively dropped or watered down its promises throughout the campaign. For example the wealth tax promise started out good (I don't remember how much) and ended up as an unfulfilled Biden-era promise. Statements or promises from the early part of the campaign, let alone from before the campaign, don't reflect the choice voters had at the ballot box. One example would be the DNC going from rejecting the border wall to promising to build it.

Part of this is bad campaigning, yes, but it's also undeniable that they actively attempted to shift to the right in this election. They didn't campaign on progressive economic policy because, if they did, they'd find themselves obliged to make good on at least some of those promises, which would piss off their donors. I mean remember the "nothing really comes to mind comment"? Talking about the wrong things is one thing, but when asked about the right things the Democrats gave very wrong answers.