That first group of people is basically "libs who are not hardcore capitalists, and who aren't terminally online enough to obsess over every primary candidate." You're right that it can be difficult to convince them to vote for a Bernie-style candidate in the primary, but it's far from impossible. I remember walking to go vote with someone like that, and asking them who they were thinking of voting for. They said they liked some other candidate but also Bernie, and that they thought the other candidate was proposing some of the same things as Bernie. I mentioned that Bernie "seemed a little more serious" about those policies, and that's all it took to get them to vote for him. This lines up with polling suggesting that most primary voters had Bernie at least in their top two.
Now if someone's a Buttigieg voter, as in they have a Rat Boy sign on their lawn, yeah, appealing to them is not a great use of time. I'm thinking more of libs who haven't committed to a candidate yet.
That first group of people is basically "libs who are not hardcore capitalists, and who aren't terminally online enough to obsess over every primary candidate." You're right that it can be difficult to convince them to vote for a Bernie-style candidate in the primary, but it's far from impossible. I remember walking to go vote with someone like that, and asking them who they were thinking of voting for. They said they liked some other candidate but also Bernie, and that they thought the other candidate was proposing some of the same things as Bernie. I mentioned that Bernie "seemed a little more serious" about those policies, and that's all it took to get them to vote for him. This lines up with polling suggesting that most primary voters had Bernie at least in their top two.
Now if someone's a Buttigieg voter, as in they have a Rat Boy sign on their lawn, yeah, appealing to them is not a great use of time. I'm thinking more of libs who haven't committed to a candidate yet.