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Our culture is not liberal and our media is not liberal. Socially liberal, sure, to an extent. But we're still a society that glorifies the police, glorifies guns, glorifies the rich (every time they do something reasonably decent), and most importantly, we're a society made up of individuals who all think we're the center of the fucking universe, and that any effort to do something that might not benefit a specific individual directly is therefore not wasting time on in the eyes of that individual.

Again, 74 million voters turned out in favor of the man who would, not two months later, lead to an insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol. And as has been pointed out the margin of victory by which Biden won a handful of states that gave him the electoral college is even slimmer than that by which Trump beat Hillary in 2016. And you could make the case that, by running a moderate candidate like Biden it made enough swing voters feel safe enough to vote Democrat and prevent a second term of Trump.

I'm making all my arguments from a strategic perspective, not from the perspective of people actually casting the votes. You have to consider the fact that, for a lot of moderates, they don't WANT the progressive policies you believe are wildly popular. It's not that they're scared of offending and scaring off GOP voters. They're likely not taking that too much into consideration the way I do. For all the polls of M4A being super popular...those rarely take into the account the follow-up question of "Would you support tax increases in order to fund M4A?" And I know that Republicans don't have to deal with those sorts of follow-up questions. No GOP voter thought "Well, it seems highly illogical that we'll be able to build an entire wall along our Southern border and then get Mexico to pay for it. I ask you, Donald, how do you intend on implementing this?" They just shouted "Build the Wall!" and ignored the logistics. That's just not how Democratic voters are, and it's probably the reason Warren, and then Bernie, hit walls in the primaries the second they started getting pushed on how they'd pay for their proposals.

Another reason why the GOP doesn't fear what the left will think is because the GOP is a far-right party. There are a few moderates, but most moderate conservatives are in the right wing of the Democratic Party. They're center-left to center-right. The GOP, meanwhile, is far-right, and then when the tea party cropped up to start pushing them to the extreme right, it really wasn't a big deal to acquiesce to their demands in exchange for power. It's not like the extreme right was that much of a policy shift for the far right, after all. Half the country is onboard with the far-right, whereas the Dems have to consider that the majority of their base are moderates, and aren't going to accept "far left" ideals. The Dems are too big of a tent, but they kinda have to be, because again, half the country is gleefully onboard with the far-right of the GOP.

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