Cool, so next time we'll show up to support the Bernie-equivalent in the primaries unlike in 2016 and 2020, right?

Right...?

The constant refrain of "I don't understand why the Dem party is appealing to moderates when moderates win the primaries????" is immensely frustrating. And before the usual, predictable chorus of "RIGGED PRIMARIES" comes up, no, the DNC does not play fair, but that also doesn't mean they were stuffing the ballot boxes. They framed things in an anti-Bernie way, but that ultimately didn't matter because both times we lost by double digit percentage points against the fuckwad moderate candidate.

Our 'elites' are dogshit, but the essential problem is that the American electorate is neither educated on the issues nor particularly left. That is where change starts, so get educating instead of wishing for BAD elites to be replaced by GOOD elites.

We're never going to badger the current DNC corporate shills into working for the people... They'll need to be replaced before we can hope to stop the ratchet effect and start making real change

The DNC needs the far right. Without it, their candidates would have to run on actual positions, rather than just "Vote for us because we're not Republicans."

The DNC hires the same consultants for running campaigns that the RNC use so naturally they will all veer right. The DNC has stopped trying to represent the people and wants to get their turn at the money funnel.

Dems have been right of center for my entire life. It's only because we have such far-right propaganda about socialism and such in schools that this seems normal.

Edit: when I made some comment / argument on a position in debate class when I was 15yo, the teacher whispered "socialist" to the class. I didn't even know what that meant. Whatever I said, it was sure to be about helping people and making the world more fair to end up with that comment.

Keeping at bay? The Republicans have the DNC by the throat right now.

Similar to how Netanyahu's faction in Israel kept funding Hamas to justify their objectives on control of the state.

"Ummmmm you're kidding right? Our owners would never allow that. I was thinking more like swoop in and openly become the new right! Nows our chance to take the economic left mask off and embrace our neoliberalism!"

I feel like the LotR "Cast it into the fire!" meme would also work, where the ring is "Rich People Money"

They go to the same parties organised by the same billionaires and their kids go to the same schools and marry each other.