Tribalism is not racism. We are inherently drawn to tribes and those tribes sometimes are defined by race but no, people who aren't racist aren't racist and if racism is defined by tribalism it looses all meaning as a word and real racism is diminished.

Start to think like that and you end up at critical race theory, a horribly racist, division causing load of nonsense. 

Sanders: [It] "should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."

Yep. That's it. For years the left as a movement (not the democratic party alone) has messaged they don't want and don't need the working class. Even though democrats have consistently the better policies for working class people, but they seem to be ashamed about it.

What is happening that the wealthier, well educated left is hyperfocusing on identity politics (and the right is gladly playing their game as they realize it is beneficial to them). But the real conflict in the world is a class conflict. White and black people, gay and straight are all exploited as workers by Amazon and Walmart and so on. The educated left keeps separating people into smaller and smaller compartments and explains they are at odds, while the workers don't care which skin color their coworker has, they care about both getting paid better and more vacation days. Focus on that.

You must be following a bunch of people that pretend to be left.  Most of the left and left leaning people I follow are for the working class and from the working class.

Looking back I think what killed democrats' chances was Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema preventing democrats from enacting popular legislation early on. Those 2 abused the fact Dems had a very narrow majority in the Senate and made the Democrats into the "do-nothings democrats" Trump was claiming earlier, both making Democrats unpopular and giving credibility back to Trump and Republicans after January 6. 

Joe Machin especially was claiming "We can't do away with filibuster because if we do then Republicans will also do it". yeah right -_- like anybody is believing Republicans will take the high road and work with a filibuster in place. They'll remove at first opportunities.

LOL. Yes, declare what you decide are left people and who not. And apparently according to you democrats are a bunch of people pretending to be left. If we are defining left as caring about working class, then the democrats aren't left and a left does not effectively exist in the US. In that case replace left with liberals or whatever you deem the right term.

Well, both the Democrats and Republicans have shifted further to the right so politically speaking the left doesn't really exist in the US anymore not on a national level anyway. 

Well, both the Democrats and Republicans have shifted further to the right so politically speaking the left doesn't really exist in the US anymore not on a national level anyway. 

How has the right shifted, exactly?

More importantly, how the HELL have the left shifted right?  On a national level, the democratic candidate hinged her entire campaign on abortion and LGBT.

Trans men should not be playing in women's sports. It is that simple.

Well, both the Democrats and Republicans have shifted further to the right so politically speaking the left doesn't really exist in the US anymore not on a national level anyway.