If I were fighting for the status quo I would vote republican.
Do you think Nina Turner was about to reinvent the wheel as a congresswoman? Doubtful. At the end of the day she lost a primary and can only blame herself.
In general Democrats create laws that improve my life and the lives of black people. That's why I support them. Under Obama and now Biden I've seen this country shift further left than my wildest expectations from when I was a kid and in a relatively short amount of time. I look forward to seeing this country improve and continue to move towards the left as I get older.
This conversation isn't about Turner, as Sedar pointed out we need to slowly take over the party on progressive at a time. They'll have other chances to do this.
Republicans are not status quo they push things further right with a slow creep to pure fascism. The Democrats are merely stop gap but don't move anything back in the other direction, we're further right then we've ever been at any point in my life on this planet because Democrats are fukking cowards.
Part in bold is you telling on yourself. Obama's tenure as president resulted in destruction of black wealth and you can trace that back to his awful policies around the 2008 economic crisis in which the recovery and policies heavily favored businesses and the common man was told go fukk himself.
My life improved under Obama, Trump and Biden but many other lives especially black lives did not. I can speak from a place of privilege so It's my job to recognize that and continue to push for better even it hurts me in the long run.
Democrats don't want to help regular people and until they do me and many other progressives will only support progressives. Since the only thing that matters is your material improvement I guess I can see why you'd keep voting Democrat.
