It's always someone's first time properly paying attention to politics. There's no silver bullet argument, no specific citation of recent history that will immediately dissuade them of the usual civil-religion yankee-liberal brainworms. But you make the arguments and cite the history anyway, so that the next time Democrats fail them, they'll have enough context to see it for what it is.

It's cyclical, this happens a lot during a conservative president's first year or two; liberal politicians cater to the conservatives, liberal voters get angry at their own party for capitulating and working with conservatives, then when the election cycle ramps up the vast majority all vote lib again

tbf PSL's membership has surged in the past few years

Uzani, when the light came over the mountain

Yeah so go and meet them there and keep them moving along. Only a fool would expect a liberal to head for the mountains and join a Maoist militia the very first day after learning that people to the left of them aren't so bad after all.

You don't even have to join DSA to meet them, PSL and others often show up to the same protests and events in my town (as it should be). I guess I haven't seen Greens so much, but WFP at least.

I remember this song and dance during the 2020 primary

Why won't you vote for the guy that wants to chainsaw all homeless people? Wtf are you some kind of fascist