I did. My point is that you're recasting the real situation into a totally cockeyed reinterpretation. If a Democrat tries to do something left-wing, and it doesn't work within the system, and they have to pare it back to something more establishment-friendly but that still helps a whole bunch of people when they get it passed, I don't think it's accurate to blame the Democrat for that situation. You can have a productive conversation about "yo that sucks how do we make this less corrupt," and tons of ideas within or not-within the system can help get that done.
It's like ten people standing around a burning building, and five people are trying to put out the fire while five are actively trying to stop them and light new fires, and you're saying this whole organizational structure is fucked (accurate) we have to fix it (accurate) what the fuck you five guys who are trying seem like your firefighting efforts aren't working (here's where it breaks down for me).
You want to bring in better more qualified firefighters? Fuckin' A, man, that sounds great. In the meantime, I think letting the ones who are trying continue to try is not somehow a bad thing, definitely better than helping the ones who are lighting new fires take control.
Also, "fall in line with" is a very weird phrasing. I've never in my life fallen in line with a Democratic politician. ("voting out of fear" is another). I just vote for the person I think will be better than the other person, because I want to have a better outcome instead of a worse one. Why are you searching for ways to cast that pretty sensible decision in some kind of negative emotionally charged light?
(Also, I have asked this of people of your ilk I have talked to on Lemmy before: What should I do, instead of voting, to support leftist change within the US? What is your activist organization, what is your movement to work for change? Because working for something better than the current establishment Democrats sounds great, yes. How can I do that?)