I rocks with MDMH and his views are close to mine, but I do think there is a misplaced energy in fighting the not-left-enough PSA-style liberals who push for things like Medicare For All. It smacks of a purity test -- that the entire platform of politics needs to be in order before you can move forward on a plank -- and I think that's a losing strategy. I don't think coalescing around an issue like healthcare or minimum wage increases or paid leave or what have you just because PSA-ites are too focused on, say, shallow identity politics along the way. Now, once a proposed solution to pay for M4A shows that it doesn't come on the backs (er...) of higher marginal tax rates and financial transactions, then the debate is necessary.
The Chapo Trap House-style of politics is fun and intellectually stimulating and has contributed to pulling the Democratic party rhetoric -- if not much in the way of action -- toward the left. But that bloc of voters ain't gonna lead to material quality-of-life changes for working people on the ground on their own. Not worth it for the claim at moral superiority.
I'm not saying stop holding corporatist ideology within PSA accountable. I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with focusing on issue-based commonalities.
But PSA folks, hard to take you seriously when this is your brand: