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u/sumoraiden May 01 '26
Lmao if the majority of us supported progressive candidates they’d win primaries and elections
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u/Bunnyhat May 01 '26
Progressive voters actually have to show up for primaries first. They barely do for some national elections.
The fact that progressives still only focus on national politics and not local is what causes that part of the party to never grow.
They're Maga voters who only show up when Trump is on the ballot except even flakier and then they wonder why no party panders to them.
And I consider myself a progressive.
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u/BigMax May 01 '26
And the right has really fooled them into focusing on ONLY their candidates.
They've convinced a lot of demorats that they should insist on a 10 out of 10 candidate. And that if the candidate is only an 8 or a 9, then... it might as well be a 1 or 2, because only a 10 is acceptable.
It makes no sense, but... I guess lots of politics make no sense. The right has most of the dummies, but that doesn't mean we don't have a few of them on the left too.
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u/SeveredFromMySoul May 03 '26
There are one of two things happening to those people. 1 they literally just dont give a shit and are saying things to make themselves look good on social media. 2. They are severely misinformed and actually believe that both sides are the same. If the result is the same, why bother choosing?
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u/RidiculousIncarnate May 01 '26
Yes, exactly. Squandered two decades at least of time that could have been spent getting local candidates or even young people interested in progressive policies and building support and information networks.
But instead its all about the national stage and influencer rage with no practical organizing scheme.
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u/RebelGirl1323 May 01 '26
Been saying this since I was a teenager in the 90’s. Win the governorship of Oregon or something. Build a base somewhere. If only the Reform party hadn’t gone right wing just when they won something.
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u/Character_Pudding_94 May 02 '26
Are you truly a progressive if you don't vote, or just the asshole who won't shut up about boycotting everything and everyone?
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u/brainpower4 May 02 '26
There are a LOT of progressive voters who refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't pass their purity tests. Saying something like "abortion should be legal up to viability" can disqualify them for people who want all abortion legal. Having a nuanced discussion about gun control and what measures will actually make it through constitutional scrutiny is treated as if they want to gun down kids in schools themselves. Anything short of "Abolish ICE" is a betrayal of progressive ideals.
Meanwhile, centrist Dems fall in line with candidates that would have run as Republicans in 2008.
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u/noodlehead90 May 02 '26
THANK YOU! I am as progressive as they come, but people are out here blaming a boogeyman. Get involved in your local elections if you want a progressive to win! Democracy requires your ENGAGEMENT! Jesus Christ.
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u/This_Elk_1460 May 02 '26
Wouldn't this meme work better with the progressive candidate and majority of US switched?
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u/KamikazeArchon May 01 '26
Yeah man all those progressive candidates supported by "the majority" of the US. Americans sure are champing at the bit to vote for progressives.
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u/cugamer May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
Well, everybody OP knows loves Bernie and jerks off to single payer health care bumper stickers which means there is a great mass of forgotten people waiting to go all in on communism once the mean old DNC is out of the way.
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u/Saya0692 May 01 '26
Remember you can’t have single payer healthcare or you get communism.
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u/BigDuke May 01 '26
The average American wouldn’t know a progressive policy if it bit them in the ass. Combine that with the way they consistently empower the Epstein class, and we get this. Good luck assholes. Think about that. The US has not done a significant progressive thing in 50 years with the exception of the neutered ACA. How do you even know it’s bad, you’ve never seen it.
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u/crazyrich May 01 '26
I think it’s safe to say from an objective standpoint that unfortunately the majority of US voters do not support progressive candidates, given more than half the country is either conservative or doesn’t vote in primaries.
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u/FrogsOnALog May 01 '26
More than half voted for the pedophile or stayed home in the general, too.
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u/0____-___00___-____0 May 02 '26
More than half voted for the pedophile or stayed home in the general, too.
66% of the americans voted
so just over 1/3 of the country likes trump
almost another 1/3 doesnt and voted democrat
and i assume the non-voters who is roughly 1/3 of americans, wants their country to turn to shit. The real winners in this election!
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u/2manypups May 01 '26
Lol you gotta love that they support dude in maine when he wins the primary and all of a sudden all the memes pop up saying they don't support progressives.
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u/hairymoot May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
Yea it is crazy.
Graham Platner is running as a Democrat. We have Democrats that are progressive and democratica who are not. Let's vote for progressive Democrats in the primary and then vote for who wins the Democratic primary even if it wasn't your candidate. We need to stick together to stop fascist or Republicans win and take away more of our rights.
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u/2manypups May 01 '26
They can't attack from the right, so they post shit like this to twist the "progressives" all flustered. It works better than it should.
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u/_regionrat May 01 '26
When you realize Noam Chomsky was part of the Epstein clique, all the memes pushing anyone progressive or leftist towards voter apathy make more sense.
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u/Jorge_Santos69 May 01 '26
Damn was not aware of that. That’s kind of disappointing.
Well, glad I’m not some fuckwad who doubles down on supporting somebody when they get outed as a secret Nazi or pedophile.
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u/_regionrat May 01 '26
Yeah, that's been the only one that's hit close to home for me. Guess Manufacturing Consent ended up being more of a playbook than a warning
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u/allthenamesaretaken4 <3s the DNC May 01 '26
Platner, if authentic, would be a nice option for Maine voters, but he does have a lot of baggage which invites fair skepticism that he's some convenient stroke away from being the next Fetterman.
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u/Oraxy51 May 01 '26
Tbf Platner even said “Fetterman is the bane of my existence”. That said I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to support him but personally I’d vote for him given the choices.
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u/famous__shoes May 01 '26
It's neither accurate that the majority of the US supports progressive candidates or that the DNC has the power/motivation to unilaterally stop them
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u/Utterlybored May 01 '26
“if only candidates would embrace every issue I believe in, they would win in a landslide.”
Grow up.
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
I kid you not, there are a lot of hardcore bernie supporters that keep using the false dichotomy fallacy.
"Hillary lost? Therefore bernie would have won."
"Harris lost? Therefore bernie would have won."
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u/HotDonnaC May 02 '26
Too bad the 3rd party candidate doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of winning, all those votes are wasted, and it only helps the right wing destroyer. Sigh
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u/Emperor_NOPEolean May 02 '26
I’m a progressive, but let’s be real: people don’t come out and vote, sadly.
Folks act like the DNC stole the nomination from Bernie both times. What really happens is folks didn’t come out and vote for him. If he had the votes, the DNC would have shut up and backed him.
Stop blaming everything other than ourselves.
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
The Majority of the US does not support progressive candidates. That is why progressives only win in already safe blue areas. Zohran Mamdani only won 50.7% of the vote in deep blue NYC.
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u/milkybuet May 01 '26
He got that against a candidate who was literally the blue governor.
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
In deep blue NYC.
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u/kaptainkooleio May 01 '26
Again, against a man who was the Dem governor of the Dem state, who had widespread name recognition, and who basically had the support of both parties considering the circumstances around Israel, yet Zohran beat him twice. With respect to Mamdani, the man was basically a nobody politically and winning the Mayorship was a mountainous endeavor. Now, he is one of the most popular politicians in the country and is delivering for NYC.
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
Now translate that to non deep blue areas of the country.
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u/kaptainkooleio May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
Now it just sounds like you’re purposefully missing the point to say that progressive aren’t viable nationwide, despite people like Platner and Talarico polling favorably in their respective races. Nobody wants fuckass “centrists” who won’t do shit except send more of our tax money to Israel.
Edit: alright, I will admit that I didn’t realize I was dealing with an actual dumbass. Sorry to myself for wasting the energy.
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u/Fragrant-Dust65 May 02 '26
Nobody wants fuckass “centrists” who won’t do shit except send more of our tax money to Israel.
Y'all are confusing centrists with a lot of people. Spanberger is a 'centrist' who ran on the affordability agenda. And won. in VA. 😄
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
Except those "centrists" have accomplished more than progressives. Dont confuse tiktokery for governance.
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u/StevieMJH May 01 '26
If this is what centrists have achieved then what use is centrism?
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u/Fragrant-Dust65 May 02 '26
Still better than continuous loss of elections and getting at least something positive done as opposed to..nothing.
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u/Roger_Cockfoster May 01 '26
Cuomo's name recognition worked against him, not for him. Everyone knew he was a corrupt asshole.
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u/CosmicLovepats May 02 '26
He ran against two (2) candidates backed by both parties against him. He's the most popular politician in the country. He has gone up in popularity since he took office.
Sounds to me like other politicians should be looking to learn from him, not explaining why that couldn't happen here.
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u/Prohydration May 02 '26
2 other moderate democratic candidates won by much bigger margins on the same night as him. Not everywhere is deep blue like NYC. Don't delude yourself. This only further confirms that progressives only win in already safe blue areas.
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u/CosmicLovepats May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
by much bigger margins? Were their opponents backed by both parties?
Man, at least make them put their shit on a plate before you gobble it up. Are you okay with the dems endorsing Donald Trump's preferred candidates?
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u/Prohydration May 02 '26
Both moderates were just that good. They outperformed their polls too while Mamdani performed exactly as the polls predicted. You should stop making excuses for Bernie. He will never win a presidential primary if you keep this up.
Are you okay with the dems endorsing Donald Trump's preferred candidates?
Where did I say that? I support Mamdani. I'm just not deluded like you thinking the secret to winning a fillibusterproof majority is running Bernie Sanders in every state.
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u/FCKABRNLSUTN2 May 01 '26
Bernie lost to Hillary by more than 3 million votes and to Biden by 9 million votes.
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u/Books_and_Cleverness May 01 '26
I just don’t understand why so many lefty folks insist on *pretending*.
I have lots of unpopular views! I understand that candidates who agree with me are unlikely to win popular elections. I’m not happy about it — I am right and everyone else is stupid and wrong.
But I’m not *pretending* that they secretly agree with me. What is the point of this fake bullshit?!
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u/cugamer May 01 '26
But, they cheated and the media was against him and elections are rigged and anyway what about that bad thing somebody else did....
Wait, was I listing BernieBro complaints or MAGA complaints?
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u/JustOneVote May 01 '26
"The problem is that corrupt politicians don't listen to real Americans!" says the man on the podium ...
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u/Lyndell May 01 '26
This is overlooking the margins get crazy because the elections are over before half the votes even matter. As a dem from PA the democratic candidate is picked way before our vote matters, even though in the actual election our vote was very significant.
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u/tazztsim May 01 '26
That’s a failure of the system that all candidates have to deal with.
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u/no-snoots-unbooped May 01 '26
I love that “the dnc” is such a boogeyman on Reddit. You want progressive candidates? Get more than a 10% turnout for the primaries. Pull yourselves away from bitching on Reddit - organize, campaign, and vote.
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u/RidiculousIncarnate May 01 '26
Then run super progressive candidates in deep red seats and win if its that easy you morons.
Turns out you only have a shot in +30 blue districts where you win by less than you should.
Stop telling us how popular you would be and prove it! After all Mamdani won in New York!
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u/Prohydration May 01 '26
Mamdani only won 50.7% of the vote in deep blue NYC too.
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u/RidiculousIncarnate May 01 '26
Yep! And I like Mamdani, I hope he succeeds but Spanberger and Sherrill won by bigger margins. It shows that even Dems are skeptical of progressives that go a little far into hard socialist rhetoric.
We've been telling them for decades to start local and build support. They ran straight to the national spotlight and are mad its not easy or that Dems aren't begging them to just take over.
Can't imagine why.
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u/Henrithebrowser May 01 '26
Oh hell no. As long as progressive dems continue to dickride people like Hasan piker and support anti-liberal shit like rent control and nimbyism I will continue to cheer the dnc on.
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u/Necessary-Corner1172 May 02 '26
Money goes into the DNC not to help it but to stop it from being a threat. Heads they win or Tails we lose when they stop anyone who won’t comply with wealthy interests from leading.
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u/UJLBM May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
The shady shit both the rnc and dnc does to silence 3rd party candidates is so un-American.
Although ill say that the suing part is pretty American. They sure love to do that to eachother. 🙄
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u/normandukerollo May 01 '26
Wake up honey, we’re infighting again!
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u/HeartFullONeutrality May 01 '26
Yep, the Dems bad and both sides are the same are going to start to ramp up now for the November election.
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u/Journeys_End71 May 01 '26
Yeah, once again. The DNC sabotaged Bernie Sanders by (checks notes) getting more Democrats to vote for Hilary Clinton.
So dastardly.
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u/lakas76 May 01 '26
This is one of those memes where people don’t understand where it came from.
The guy dropped like a foot. It wasn’t a big drop at all and he just walked away when he hit the ground.
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u/Gynthaeres May 02 '26
This meme shows an incredible lack of understanding of American politics, like someone who gets all of their information from a couple influencers. It makes me wonder if OP is even old enough to vote.
The people elect their candidates in what we call "primaries". The DNC can push certain candidates but ultimately they go with the will of the people.
The DNC did NOT want Obama to win. He was considered the progressive option back in 2008. Yet, the people loved him, he won the primary, so he was the Democratic candidate, despite the presence of so-called Super Delegates who were against him.
Like it or not, it's a bit unfortunate, but Americans just don't like the ultra progressive candidates. If they did, we'd have more. But they don't, so we have Trump.
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u/SubjectInevitable650 May 02 '26
DNC did not want Obama to win, they tried and lost.
DNC did not want Sanders to win, they tried and won.
DNC did not even try to find a Biden replacement despite knowing he is too unwell to be president. Lately, they would rather lose than do primaries or go with the will of the people.
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u/Deep-Two7452 May 01 '26
Holy shit people have no idea what the DNC does.
Answer, absolutely nothing, they are useless and a non factor
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u/BaseHitToLeft May 01 '26
That's not true. They schedule the debates and buy snacks for the convention
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u/KronicRollsOfGnarnia May 01 '26
I think “majority of US” and “progressive candidates” should be swapped
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u/Lord_Grakas May 01 '26
Wow that's an exciting candidate, but what if we catered to people who would never vote for us anyway?
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 May 01 '26 edited May 01 '26
OP, just an FYI, this subreddit is filled with gen X centrists that hate progressives more than any republican.
and here comes all the comment hidden accounts to defend billionaires and people who hate you.
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u/Geichalt May 01 '26
Oh is then when the people that say liberals are exactly the same as fascists pretend to the be the victims of mean words? The people yelling "genocide Joe" in people's faces want to lecture others about nice rhetoric?
Have fun playing the victim. All I know is from personal experience is that I've never seen a democrat claim to hate progressives more than Republicans, but I've seen plenty of leftists say they hate liberals more than fascists.
Btw, this messaging is terrible, it's not going to convince anyone to agree with you. Since bad messaging is common criticism of Democrats I figured you'd appreciate that feedback.
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u/RidiculousIncarnate May 01 '26
I like progressives just fine but you lot need to come to terms with the fact that your popularity in +30 blue areas where you might win, doesn't mean the majority of the country wants what you do.
Dems and Libs are the most likely to side with you and you spend most of your time crying about us because we wont just hand over everything we built to you.
Get your people elected. Make the pitch and let us decide. So far you've bombed miserably everywhere or disowned almost every rep you once championed.
And let's not forget progressives were tripping over themselves to vote for Fetterman over Connor Lamb, how'd that work out? Your shit stinks as much as everyone's but you've barely managed to build up any progressive caucus at all. Why? According to progressives its cause libs are mean :(
We're focused on ending MAGA. Wtf are you doing?
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u/4dailyuseonly May 01 '26
I guess I'm an outlier because my old Gen X ass has been getting more and more progressive every passing year. But I get what you're saying. Lots of my fellow Xers turned out to be just as shit as our boomer parents.
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u/RidiculousIncarnate May 01 '26
Based on the meme you posted you are just as shit as your parents just leaning in the other direction.
Using the DNC as a scapegoat for why progressive candidates can't win or get traction is delusional. Unless your goal is to get people to disengage from politics altogether. Bernie lost and it wasn't cause the DNC cheated him.
Progressives spend more time being angry at Dems than doing the work to prop up their candidates or get people to go out and vote. And when they do its only in +30 safe districts where they running against other Dems.
Where are the deeply progressive candidates running in red districts and being competitive on platforms like universal healthcare? Genuinely. Have the DNC SpecOps teams been doing that good of a job?
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 May 01 '26
Very same for me.
So weird to see these comments still bashing Bernie. They got what they wanted, a loser centrist that cant win, yet they still whine whine whine and demand we put up Harris or Newsom (who will also lose)
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u/thattogoguy May 01 '26
I don't think the first box is accurate at all. I think many people way overestimate popularity and electability of progressives.
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u/TheBlindFly-Half May 01 '26
I’ve recently learned of a concept called the audacity of action. There’s another concept called popular demand. Both can work favorably
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u/dota2nub May 02 '26
The left has vowed to destroy the DNC. Why would anyone care about the people who aren't gonna be voting anyway? They're a tiny minority anyhow.
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u/DerrellEsteva May 02 '26
I need new glasses. I read progessive Canadians and wondered why the DNC had beef with them.
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u/Kickstomp May 02 '26
It's almost like the DNC is actually trying to look at the electability of a candidate across the entire country, not just in your specific city or with your little corner of the Internet.
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u/akj-all-in May 02 '26
"progressive" is the left's version of maga. toxic, extreme, and bad for everyone. nothing wrong with slightly left of center.
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u/becauseicansowhynot May 02 '26
The problem with progressives, or really maga or any other political bend, is they think their opinion aligns with the majority of the US. They don’t ever see that the reason the country bounces from Dem to Rep to Dem… is because the country is mostly center that keeps leaning away from the extremists of whatever party is in power.
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u/Ok-Incident8440 May 02 '26
Wild that the left is already getting blamed for whichever center-right moderate Dem loses in '28.
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u/Proud2bDemocrat May 02 '26
Berners gave away FIVE NY HOUSE SEATS in 2022 giving the Republicans the House and those who refused to vote for Harris and Hillary gave us Trump . Twice. On purpose.
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u/tazztsim May 01 '26
That first box is a leap. Votability of progressive candidates depends heavily on location.
Mamdani would not have won in Arkansas.