Congressman warns Biden to “wake up” after over 100K Michigan Democrats vote “uncommitted”

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Congressman warns Biden to “wake up” after over 100K Michigan Democrats vote “uncommitted”
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No, I'm not claiming that, lol. Don't put words in my mouth, especially if you're acknowledging that it's stupid as hell. It's both not what I said, and is condescending as fuck.

Left wing refers to Socialism, ie worker ownership of the means of production. Could be via Democratic Socialism, Communism, Anarchism, Synicalism, whatever. Liberalism isn't in that picture, because it's focused on Capitalism.

Liberals aren't as bad as Nazis, which is what you should've said, instead of saying that liberals are more left wing than Nazis. That doesn't make any sense, liberals aren't any more Socialist, they just aren't as fascist, so they are less extreme Capitalists.

Simple.

Liberals aren’t as bad as Nazis

Great. I'm gonna ignore all the other red herrings and drill down on this.

When your options are "bad" and "less bad", shouldn't you vote for "less bad"?

Yes, I never insinuated otherwise. However, your point this entire time is that this should move America to the left, and that leftists should be happy with that, which is wrong in both cases.

Well I disagree with your weird take that there's not a spectrum from right wing to centrist to liberal to "leftist", so the terminology is different. In your weird non axial political verbiage, I would say "this should move America farther away from the right, and that leftists should be happy with that."

It moves America further from fascism, but not closer to Socialism. Given that the goal of leftists is both anticapitalism and pro-socialism, failing to include the pro-socialist aspect means it's never going to be good for leftists, just not as bad, thus its on the liberals to actively throw the leftists a bone, rather than being not as evil.

it’s never going to be good for leftists, just not as bad

It's pretty much a moral requirement when given a binary choice to choose the less bad option.

Sure, but you've been working off false reasoning, and the point is that Biden has a responsibility to appeal to leftists if he wishes to garner more of their votes. You're blaming voters for bad policy by Biden, which doesn't make sense.