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Then I guess I don't understand what your point is. Young people need to go out and vote for the Democrats instead in order to make any progress, but they can't expect to Democrats to actually be progressive, but the Democrats will appease them (even though it really doesn't seem that way)...I'm really not following. Is your point that progressives need to unite behind the Democrats and keep pushing them if they're ever going to make progress? Because my point is that progressives have been uniting behind the Democrats in every major election and the Democrats actively block real progress.
Because you're working from a fabrication
Well, I'm old enough to remember when Joe Manchin killed the Build Back Better Act, when Barack Obama decided to bailout the banks and not mortgage holders, when Bill Clinton gutted welfare...the party went center-left (debatably center-right on some issues) back in the 90s because they decided that would be a better path to victory. If that's their strategy, fine, but then they aren't entitled to progressive votes.
And again, to his credit, I think Biden has tried harder than all of his predecessors to earn progressive votes: rescheduling marijuana, attempting go cancel student debt, proposing the BBB. He's certainly realized that he can't take progressive turnout for granted, much more than his party has. But Gaza is an albatross around his neck, and it's not the college protesters he needs to be worried about, it's the 300,000 Palestinian-Americans that are about to hand Michigan to Trump.