Joe Biden Can't Be "Pushed" Left Because His Party Can't Be Pushed Left

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It was always, at best, a juvenile bit of logic: vote for Joe Biden (he of 40 years of legislating as a Reagan Democrat) to oust Donald Trump, and then push (or lobby) to get him to be more progressive/left.

First things first: there are a number of reasons to suggest Biden over Trump, like Biden would accept the result of the election, win or lose, and not attempt to wreck what's left of our electoral process. 

There's no need to try and make the real base believe that it's even remotely possible that Biden can be pushed to go back on decades of center-right policy.

Why? Because there's this assumption that there are elements and mechanisms within and/or connected to the Democratic Party that can push him in the first place. As this little graphic highlights, that doesn't exist. Anyone to the left of Democratic Party Leadership is either humbled, co-opted, or excommunicated. 

If you choose to stay, you must play by their rules. If you choose to leave, prepared to be labeled radical, disloyal, unrealistic or worse. The Leadership would have us all believe that the party is already left enough.

And as such, with the systems and structure of the Democratic Party designed to minimize and/or weed out left-leaning people, there's really no one of note around to push Biden. 

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