>>149744820>That's why I emphasize that Democrats only do what's *cheap* and doesn't threaten the oligarch donors' businesses. So something like gay marriage once it's popular and you're not up for reelection, that can be done. But any of the thousands of leftist policies and issues that cut against corporate profits well those are out of consideration now.Yes, because the establishment is the establishment and it doesn't give a fuck. If left wing politics threaten the elite, fuck you, if right wing politics threaten the elite, fuck you. What you're kind of getting wrong is the idea that the elite are just corpos motivated by profit.
There's a lot of debate about who the elite are. People point to the banks, billionaires, the feds, but it's a cabal of high level bankers, businesses men, and high level politicians. Cooperations that step out of line will also get buck broken. Because these dudes care about control primarily.
You can't define them as right wing. They want mass immigration, if traditional values and ethnic homogeneity gets in the way of profits and control then they'll buttfuck it into the ground. If the left passes workers rights legislation and environmental protections they'll just outsource.
>Reaganism if nothing else was on offer?Because the Democrats didn't adopt Reagan's platform until after Reagan. The dens were offering something else and it didn't work.
>This is just a weird way of framing people finally getting offered beef and ordering it. And again the socialist victories are mostly municipal & statewide but they are growing.Because the left have gone further left, as they have for a while. When the status quo isn't working people go to the extremes. So the most fringe parts of the left are growing in number. But respectfully you're misinterpreting that as the median voter becoming more left wing and they aren't, most people are shifting right, and a minority are shifting far left.