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203. Remembering the Pew Political Typology quiz posted here and its lessons.

It's worth looking at because some people don't seem to realize that the far left includes some factions who are as ideologically opposed and hostile to the Democratic Party as Republicans. They try to blur their identity to fool people into imagining they are us, leading to circular firing squad imaginings when they're actually outside proudly and righteously firing in.

The Pew political typology quiz included all those in what they call the Democratic coalition, i.e., people who normally vote Democratic and generally share Democratic values. Pew did not include a group for people on the left who do not fall in the Democratic coalition. Pew knows who do and who do not.

Those not included are LWers who tend to be ideologically opposed to the Democratic coalition. They're farther left, frequently radical to extremist, righteously imagine Democrats are corrupt and conservative and themselves the only true caring, moral people, usually oppose capitalism, and these days call themselves progressive. They tend to be anti-establishment -- and the Democratic establishment is the big protector of our democratic institutions. And they tend to have a problem with, and be a poor fit for, democracy because they're far too few to win elections and many too extreme to admit or accept that.

So, there is a very big difference between the very broad and diverse Democratic Party coalition and far-left anti-Democratic hostiles who both despise and covet the Democratic Party's 81M voters. And everyone here should be able to recognize them fairly easily.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/