No, they will put more money and resources into strengthening propaganda and barriers to entry, liberals can't move left because they can't, by definition, oppose capitalism
Most American politicians have virtually no hardline beliefs of their own, all they care about is power for their team.
A liberal ideologue like the folks from /r/neoliberal (and truthfully Joe Biden fits the bill here so idk why anyone says he can be pushed left) are someone you need to defeat in the electoral arena, a political hack like Kamala Harris will support whatever she needs to support to keep getting elected and moving upwards, be that a right wing policy like more police or a left wing one like Medicare for all.
I'm not talking about implementing socialism in full, that was never going to happen from electoral politics, but you can absolutely get major social democratic reforms this way.
Ths abolition of slavery, social security, to Medicare and the civil rights act, every single big sweeping legislative reform in the countries history happened because of groundswell protests that forced the hand of political hack liberal politicians. Sure it's better if you get one of your own in, but even Bernie would've needed the same sort of protest movements to force the hands of other liberals.
No, they will put more money and resources into strengthening propaganda and barriers to entry, liberals can't move left because they can't, by definition, oppose capitalism
Most American politicians have virtually no hardline beliefs of their own, all they care about is power for their team.
A liberal ideologue like the folks from /r/neoliberal (and truthfully Joe Biden fits the bill here so idk why anyone says he can be pushed left) are someone you need to defeat in the electoral arena, a political hack like Kamala Harris will support whatever she needs to support to keep getting elected and moving upwards, be that a right wing policy like more police or a left wing one like Medicare for all.
I'm not talking about implementing socialism in full, that was never going to happen from electoral politics, but you can absolutely get major social democratic reforms this way.
Ths abolition of slavery, social security, to Medicare and the civil rights act, every single big sweeping legislative reform in the countries history happened because of groundswell protests that forced the hand of political hack liberal politicians. Sure it's better if you get one of your own in, but even Bernie would've needed the same sort of protest movements to force the hands of other liberals.