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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Obama is establishment, so I dont see why you would think of this as unhinged.
He isn’t in power though. This is just click bait
He had enough power to clear the Democratic field for Biden in 2020.
More than 6 years ago…
We’re still living in the fallout of 2016. The Dem establishment’s coordinated push against progressives (and the Clinton team’s strategy of trying to prop up Trump) greatly contributed to the rise of Trump. And that dynamic of an ascendant fascist right being bolstered by centrists more interested in keeping leftists out of office than fighting the fascists, has defined American politics for the last decade. You could even argue it started earlier than that with Obama’s failure to deal with the fallout of the recession, but honestly we could just keep going back in time if we wanted. I think the most relevant turning point for the current paradigm is 2016.
From there look at how they have treated or reacted to progressive candidates not even going to congress but local positions since 2016. They have not offered much in the way of support when they become the nominee and at times let a spoiler candidate run to stop them from winning. Some people may not believe it yet, but complicity is in the Democrat's blood. The entire "tent pole party" is the same lip service as they give the "melting pot" metaphor now. That they'd rather a Republican at this time win over a progressive Democrat.
Has another Democrat become nearly as relevant in that time? Was Haley Stevens pretending that Obama endorsed her just last month? Are you really saying thst the Democrats don't desperately cling to Obama's popularity, or that that doesn't give him sway within the party?