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In reply to the discussion: What in the world is AOC doing [View all]Celerity
(44,391 posts)actions based off you own characterisations of a construct you put up with no verifiable background.
Also, we are a big tent party. Different wings are going to have different takes on what we should do. There is a tendency here from a small but very vocal and active contingent to always reflexively criticise the progressive wing, to claim that their views are a priori wrong and/or illegitimate. That stance is simply becoming less and less representative of the potential voting bloc that we can, must, and will draw from as time inexorably marches on.
The way the US Constitutional system of federal governance is structured (majoritarian, first past the post, single member district), the status quo is most always going to default to a 2 party system.
There will always be dialectical tensions both inside and outside of the resultant two main parties. They are both, by nature, 'catch-all' parties, one each within the two overarching ideological bubbles, left and right, with fewer and fewer overlapping vectors.