How is it she is getting more absurd with the takes? It's gotta be interaction farming right, who the fuck is a "leftist" that likes Obama? Or does she believe that Obama was a leftist? i just dont even https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1392450373697249280
If someone ignored the posturing and looked at what the left in the US actually does it is a reasonable takeaway. Over 80% of self identified leftist voted for Obama, Hilary and Biden. The representatives the left elects overwhelming vote in line with Obama, Hillary and Biden's wing of the party, especially on foreign policy.
In the primaries Pete and Warren were able to split the Bernie vote explicitly because the American left is like this. Otherwise their hawkishness would've been disqualifying. Otherwise Biden would have had adjust his foreign policy to bring in the left after the primaries were over.
:maybe-later-kiddo: is a pretty accurate reality of the left in the US. It does also speak volumes about how kneecapped third parties truly are in the US. I suppose there is an actual argument in there that there isn't really even a real left in the US. While I'm not going to do a sectarianism, it's pretty obvious how shit the DSA can be in falling in line with so many people with a D in front of their name and I think that's a pretty acceptable take. At least the national DSA that is, local ones are for sure not always like this.
The two party system in the US and electoralism in general here is just so bad that unless an actual, genuine and large working class movement happens, most of this will never change. The "left" that does vote probably doesn't really associate much with who they vote for. I'm just guessing here, because the alternative can seem worse for BIPOC and LGBTQA communities because of the rights ability in enact even more harmful laws than what the dems already do. But yeah, they did vote for them, so it's not wrong, but Aimee seems to heavily imply the right would be the answer and I'd hard disagree with that one