Americans Are Progressive, They Just Don’t Know It

For each presidential election cycle the mainstream media obsesses over all the candidates. Are they too old? Are they too left? Are they too uncharismatic? Can they really appeal to the general electorate? Rarely do they ask if a candidate is too centrist. There’s an assumption that this simply isn’t possible. They assume that the American electorate is so far right that a centrist candidate is the only way to elect a Democrat.
There’s a reason for this obsession with electability, of course. Voting does requires some balance of ideology and strategy. But we’re rarely presented with the data we need to strategize successfully. Nor are we given a clear definition of what “electability” really means.
So when we talk about electability, what are we really saying? Are we talking about the electorate, the electoral college, or voter turnout?
The mainstream media presents the country as horribly divided, with 50% of the country wanting the traditional establishment Democratic platform and the other wanting the Republican’s, but this obscures the truth. Really, the electorate is far left of both the Republican’s and the Democrat’s party platform.